On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Derek Glidden wrote:
> For email under Linux, everything available currently sucks. Or to be
> more precise, no email client I've used, with the exception of
> Netscape's, supports all the features I need all at once. (And it's not
> like I'm overly critical, all I need is IMAP, mail filters, nested
> folders, but you'd be surprised at how many email clients don't have one
> or more of those essential features.)
hmmm ... TIMTOWTDI. One unix way is fetchmail, procmail and pine
... fetchmail silently gathers mail from all over the country for
me; procmail filters and cleans it to my liking, and pine supports
imap as a native client -- I fire off a browser, or an image viewer,
or a fax viewer, or print, and my hands never leave the keyboard
> The biggest problem is that NOBODY FREAKIN' SUPPORTS IMAP. I swear, I
> can only believe that email client developers only own ONE machine from
> which they do all their work,
I have never found much use for nested folders, but imap support's
them. I have been on the UW Imap developers list for years, and
found Mark Crispin and that group quite knowledgable; ESR's
fetchmail devel list is a bit rowdier.
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