on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 07:35:42PM +0000, Ricardo Campos wrote:
Has anyone got any suggestions for a mail client that suits these criteria:
either mutt in an xterm or post office. i've not used post office yet, but it looks quite nice. http://www.tarball.net/postoffice/
- Can handle HTML, but needs to send in either html
or text (actually only needs to send in text).
It looks like post office can. mutt can support viewing html by a little mailcap hack:
in ~/.mailcap: text/html;pf "lynx -dump -noredir -noreverse -nounderline -restrictions=all" html | less
in ~/bin/pf (~/bin should be in your path): #!/bin/sh
if [ -z "$1" ]; then echo "usage: $0 program <fileext>" exit 2 fi tmp="$HOME/tmp/pf.$$" touch $tmp; chmod 600 $tmp cat >$tmp $1 $tmp rm $tmp
If you're in a paraniod mood you can replace the tmp= line with something that uses mktemp, if your system has it.
- Can handle MIME attachments.
Both can, afaik. mutt handles them really well.
- GUI based, but not desktop environment specific
(i.e. not Kmail or Evolution). I use WindowMaker as a window manager, and both those products crash at unexpected times outside their cde.
post office is more of a gui than mutt in an xterm, I guess :)
- Not Mozilla Messenger or Nestscrape Msgr.(These
seem a little shaky to me too- although I'm still on Netscrape 4.77)
/me remembers the good old days when web browsers would stick to being web browsers and mail clients, mail clients.
It *doesn't* need to handle news, or have a calender, or an organiser, or wash my dishes. :) Just a mail client.
post office does news.