I'd like to configure a pop3-account on Suse-Linux 9.3. I've read the manual
of pico, but I still can't use it.
Does anyone know how to setup the account with pico?
Is there any other easy to use mail client?
Last I checked, Pico was a text-editor. While Emacs is not only
a text-editor, but a mail reader, web browser, psychologist,
coffee-maker, and kitchen sink, I don't think many other editors
provide such *ehem* "variety" of features. However, Pine should
come with Pico, so you might be intending to set up pine instead.
What you likely want is a *mail reader* program. A number of
them exist, from the ubiquitous command-line driven "mail"
program, to elm, mutt or pine, to gui programs. As this is the
blinux list, I'll presume you're hunting for a console-mode mail
program. Mutt and Pine are both good packages with lots of
power. I find Pine slightly easier to use from a beginner's
perspective, while Mutt has a lot more power and configurability
to work the way you want to as a user. Both support directly
accessing POP3 mailboxes (as well as IMAP mailboxes which I
happen to prefer, as I access my mail from a variety of
machines). I don't know enough about Elm to speak with any
authority on it.
As for the "mail" or "mailx" command-line driven email reader
program, while I don't think it has POP3/IMAP support directly,
there are packages which slurp down mail from a POP3/IMAP account
and deposit locally in the standard mbox format that mail/mailx uses.
Additionally, there's the "mh" ("mail handler" or "message
handler" depending on whom you ask) package which is a suite of
command-line driven programs that allow you to access mailboxes
where each folder is an actual folder on your disk, and each
message is a file within those folders. It works well for
working in concert with other command-line tools such as grep,
find, etc. In my Debian install here, it's just as simple as
apt-get install nmh
and optionally
apt-get install mh-book
for the manual. "nmh" is "new mail handler" (or "new message
handler", again, depending on whom you ask) which builds on its
ancestor "mh". It has support for accessing POP3 mailboxes,
though as of my last check, doesn't seem to gracefully support
IMAP. YMMV.
Hope this gives you some leads. If you have questions about any
of these programs, there are plenty of smart folks on this list
that should be able to help you along on your way.
-tim
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