most TLUG members send email from MSWin

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Sun Mar 7 14:37:19 UTC 2004


On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 10:12:44PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> Plain, vanilla "mail" on RedHat seems to be Berkeley Mail.  This can
> certainly do distribution lists by itself, without a shell wrapper.
> 
> I don't know if there is a PD version of /bin/mail (as in 6th edition
> UNIX).  That's what I consider "plain mail".
> 
> Berkeley Mail has a lot of features.  Too many, actually.

I thought the mail command was normally provided by your mail server
program as a wrapper for the sendmail command.

> I tend to change MUAs (Mail User Agents) roughly once a decade (I've
> used email for over thirty years).  So I understand inertia.  But I
> don't claim my MUA is best -- that would take research that I'm
> intentionally avoiding.  I wonder if you are too.

Hmm, I have gone through pine, elm and now mutt.

> I'm using PINE.  It has a few annoying limitations, but I'm
> comfortable with it.  I will probably move on soon because LINUX
> distros are dropping it due to licensing problems.  Mutt is probably
> my next MUA.

I will highly recomend mutt.  It seems to have every feature one could
want in a MUA.  Nice integration with gpg/pgp, great attachment support,
ability to use urlview and other handy tools, supports Maildir and mbox
format for mail, can do imap, etc.  And you get to use your favourite
editor by default.

> I don't see an advantage for me in a GUI mail program.

I only think they have disadvantages.  You can't use them by ssh from
anywhere you want.

Lennart Sorensen
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