most TLUG members send email from MSWin

[Paul King]

> On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 05:49:33PM -0500, Paul King wrote:
> > I use mail on both OSes, but unfortunately, mail has been stored for
> > years on the Windows (NTFS) partition. So, it has become a habit to
> > the only use Evolution for downloading without deleting mail from the
> > server and occasionally sending mail; where Pegasus (the Windows
> > client) is used as my permanent mail archive. Automated mail sorting,
> > spam filtering, and distribution list creation are far better on
> > Pegasus than on Evolution or other UNIX-based mailers I've used.
> 
> Nonsense...  Procmail, Mutt, Tin.
> 

Didn't know Linux had a mail client called "Nonsense". Or maybe that's the spam 
filter :o)

Seriously though, my experience with UNIX console-type mailers have originally 
been either PINE or ELM, using fetchmail to do the "fetching". Before that I 
could use plain old "mail" to send mail, and I even use that nowadays on 
occasion. For distro lists, plain, vanilla "mail" would IMO be the easiest 
client for me, since I need only write a shell script with a list of email 
addresses, and I have myself a distribution list. There are many other features 
Pegasus has, however, that make me want to stick with it. For one thing, it is 
much easier to set up than these other clients.

> > Secondly, there is no better newsreader than Forte Agent, although Pan
> > is catching up and is doing some nice back-end stuff with
> > multithreading, which Agent doesn't appear to do. Pan also has a
> > wonderful ability to store information for several news servers, which
> > Agent does not do either. But still Agent's advantages outweigh the
> > disadvantages.
> > 
> > I would toss all that to one side if Pan and Evolution evolved beyond
> > my Windows apps.
> 
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