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Re: Which mail client to switch? (was) Re: exim: how to modify the "Sender:" header



on Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 11:11:10AM +0700, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim (rms46@vlsm.org) wrote:
> "Karsten M. Self" wrote:
> 
> >> I guess, that this is a Netscape mailer problem, since
> >> there is no problem with mutt. Apparently, Netscape
> >> put a non FQDN "Sender: ", and the smarthost adds
> >> its FQDN to that header.
> > 
> > It's a Netscape mail problem.  Get a real mail client.  It's possible
> > you could get around this by running some sort of filter on your
> > outbound mail but I've not looked into that.
> 
> uh-oh... too late :-( ? I have > 20 Mbytes of gziped email archive in
> cascaded folders. I have not found a better GUI replacement (yet).

Netscape uses an mbox format with additional index files (which can be
deleted -- Netscape itself will recreate these as needed).  This is
compatible with a very wide range of GNU/Linux mailers.

I *very* heartily recommend mutt.

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