[geeks] Favorite mailer

[Brian Hechinger]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:23:51AM -0500, Reagen B . Ward wrote:
> 
> I'm a former elm user, so I use mutt.  mutt's very nice as far as
> text-based mailers go.  I leave it running at home in a screen session;
> I'm able to access it it from almost anywhere, and with a nice java SSH
> applet, it's great on the road.  I leave mutt sessions open for months
> at a time with no problem.

i use an IMAP server here internally, and use mutt with IMAP support.  i don't
even have to use screen or anything, all i need to do is start up a new mutt
session and it "steals" the IMAP connection from my "permanent mutt session"
when i sit back down at my desk all i have to do is poke mutt and it will
reconnect to the imap server.  it works great.  my "perm mutt" has the same
uptime value as my machine.

> I also want to find a good cross-platform UI mailer.  At work, I use X11
> and Win2K desktops, at home I use X11 and MacOS X desktops, and on the

does it need to be GUI?  mutt works from telnet and ssh just fine, and on ANY
platform at all.  period. :)

-brian