[Novalug] Searching for a new email client

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Sat Feb 23 09:04:27 EST 2008


Maxwell,

Do you host your own email server?  Do you get it via pop or imap?

Jay

>
> I want to ditch pine as my email client.
>
> I've been using it for, probably 15 years.  It has not changed much and I want
> to take the plunge to something a bit more contemporary.
>
> What should I use, and why?
>
> I like pine because it:
>
> 1) Is very keyboard friendly and that makes sense since writing text for
> emails requires the keyboard not the mouse.
>
> 2) Is very configurable.  I use it with fetchmail to acquire mail and procmail
> to make carbon copies/automatic saves/duplicates and of course drop mail into
> specific folders.  I'd love to ditch procmail and use a GUI to setup rules for
> the same.
>
> Why I don't like pine
>
> 1) Can't display html easily and that's gone from being a good thing to a
> severe limitation in a modern web enabled world.
>
> 2) doesn't seem to have contemporary features like indexed email that can be
> searched.  Gmail has this and I figure a local mail client should as well,
> right?
>
> 3) is boring boring boring.  Flip side; is very trusty and reliable.
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
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> Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
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