On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:58:46PM -1000, Joseph Dane wrote: > > 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 Kmail keeps its mail standard mboxes in ~/Mail, which is where mutt saves its mboxes too. kmail can be tought to look for new mail in /var/mail/$USER though it insists on `downloading' it to ~/Mail/inbox so a mutt + Kmail might make a fairly cooperative pair. > * 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 im not sure about this, mutt uses a very simple text based format for mail aliases (address book) i have no idea what kmail uses. > 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. heh ;-) have her try mutt, maybe she will like it enough to just ditch the silly GUI MUAs ;-) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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