on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 06:07:11PM -0800, Erik Steffl (steffl@bigfoot.com) wrote: > Francesco Bochicchio wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 09:42:52AM +1100, Damien wrote: > > > > > > it's the same traffic, just all lumped into one big mail. the traffic isn't > > > that hard to deal with - maybe ten minutes a day, if you've got a good mailer. > > > > > Yep. It was the amount on trafic on debian-user which forced me to abandon > > netscape mail client and learn how to use fetchmail+procmail+mutt. > > Once everithing is distributed in folders and sorted by threads, it is quite > > easy to pick up the interesting ones. > > you can do that in netscape as well... Yes and no and yes. Netscape has filtering capabilities. They're not as flexible as procmail (but they're easier to set up for basic functionality). If you're using a POP mailbox and Netscape's built-in fetchmail functionality, this is an acceptable start. If you're using local system mail transport, you can incorporate procmail into your mail processing, and still use Netscape to access mail. In all, however, I find mutt is a far more powerful and versatile (not to mention stable) email client. I've used mail, mailx, pine, elm, cc:mail, MSMail, OutLook, Lotus Notes, and Netscape over the years. Mutt wins hands down. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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