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Re: Email programs that work.



On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 08:45:32AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> Matej Cepl wrote:
> > Andreas Rippl wrote:
> >> Generally I tink that it boils down to your requirements in a MUA. I
> > 
> > Of course there is one thing which has to be admitted to mutt -- its ability
> > to go be used through ssh. I use it sometimes when I need it, and it is by
> > far the best alternative of that (don't start me to complain about pine).
> 
> And that which is good about all TUI MUAs: you can still[0] read
> your email if X gets horked by apt.
> 
> [0] - that is, if your email is in an IMAP store.

My mail in *not* in an IMAP store, and I still use mutt over sh to read 
it.  I just ssh to the remote machine, and run mutt there.

This is *really* *useful* when X is borked and I have toe dicuss how to 
get it runnin again on this mailing list.

-- hendrik

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> Ron Johnson, Jr.
> Jefferson LA  USA
> 
> Is "common sense" really valid?
> For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
> whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
> are mud people.
> However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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