Re: Mail/news software

[Brian May <bam@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Christophe" == Christophe TROESTLER <ev_galois@freegates.be> writes:

    Christophe> On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, "Kovacs Istvan"
    Christophe> <kofa@alarmix.net> wrote:
    >>  What mail and news software do you recommend?  The ideal
    >> software would be able to handle both mail and news in an
    >> integrated manner, place incoming and outgoing messages into
    >> folders automatically using header info, integrate with
    >> PGP/GPG, handle UU/MIME attachments, thread messages, fetch
    >> using POP3 and send via SMTP, would have a GUI that allows
    >> multiple windows to be open for composing and reading
    >> mail/articles, and would be easy to use and free of charge.

    Christophe> Mew <http://www.mew.org/> has all that (plus much
    Christophe> more, particularly important for me is the ablility to
    Christophe> manage several identities with associated headers,
    Christophe> signature,...).  But I won't hide that it is still
    Christophe> under heavy development and _some_ of the more
    Christophe> advanced features are still implemented rather
    Christophe> crudely.

Do you know how Mew compares with Gnus?
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>