Re: Can any one recommend a mailreader...
>>>>> "walter" == Walter Tautz <walt@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca> writes:
> other than pine. I would like a simple curses based reader
I use Gnus, which these days comes with emacs. It (emacs) runs
on almost any terminal or in a window - does that satisfy your
curses needs?. A word of caution - if you are not an emacs fan,
Gnus may not be for you - on the other hand, it may make you an
emacs fan.
> that easily allows one to configure the mail to read
> automatically into separate folders depending on the
> address it came from,
It allows your to split mail automatically into folders according
to regular expressions.
> allows filename completion when reading files in or when
> going to different folders,etc.
Gnus uses the usual emacs expansion so that's no problem.
> Preferably any configuration should be built into the
> interface itself, i.e. it would be nice to avoid editing a
> configuration file directly. -Walter
Some configuration is available by using the cleverly named
"configure" command. I edit my mail splitting by hand, but since
gnus runs as part of emacs, which is originally an editor,
editing is a pretty straight forward.
> The system I intend to run it on is the university system
> running slackware.
Should be able to run emacs on that. There is a Gnus faq posted
regularly to gnu.emacs.gnus that can get you started if you are
interested.
Mike
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