Re: combo GUI/text mail client
Well you could tell Netscape to keep messages on server, so your wife will
still have all e-mail she has read and the new ones. Then after about a
week have download all the mail and take it off the server.
Thanks,
Dan
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Dane" <jdane@studio3511.com>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 8:58 PM
Subject: combo GUI/text mail client
>
> Here's what I'd like to have: a mail client that I can access via a
> nice, flashy GUI when I'm sitting at my desk, or via a simple
> text-mode interface when I'm connecting remotely.
>
> Actually, it's my wife I'm primarily thinking about. She uses our
> computer at home (Debian, natch) to read/send mail using Netscape.
> She also occasionally connects from her parents' house, or from work
> using ssh and getting a simple shell (text) interface. Right now, she
> uses pine for this, but this sucks because:
>
> * netscape slurps up all read mail into its own 'nsmail' directory,
> so she can only read new mail
>
> * netscape and pine don't (can't?) share addressbooks, so they either
> get out of sync, or require more attention than one would like to
> offer them
>
> I have been looking for such a beast, without any luck. Gnus works
> pretty well for me, but as I'm trying to *stay* married, I'm unwilling
> to inflict Gnus on my wife at this time.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --
>
> joe
>
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