Re: any suggestions on mail client?

["N. Thomas" <nthomas@cise.ufl.edu>]

* sandip <sandip@escortsmumbai.com> [2002-10-30 14:13:20 +0530]:
> > Mutt (along with procmail) can do all of the things you describes.
> > However, I am bit confused about "address completion":
> > 
> > > have facility of address completion: so when i start typing 'sandip' -
> > > the real name, it picks up corresponding e-mail address
> 
> lets say, i have an entry that says sandip as real name and deshmukh at
> someserver dot com as e-mail adderss. and there are no other entries
> that begin with san.
> 
> now, when i begin typing sandip, as i type character after character, it
> keeps offering me choices. bash does it wrt file names.

I don't think that mutt has readline-like capabilities, but aliases work
just as well for this purpose.

> > > have ability of address books with custom fields and ability to import
> > > csv format address books
> > 
> > Not directly, you can whip up a quick script to to do this.
> 
> well beyond my abilities! still a newbie! :(

You can look around, someone might have done it already. Even better,
Python/Perl or Zsh/Bash programming is not that difficult to learn, and now
would be a perfect time to do so.

hth,
thomas

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