From: Colm Buckley (colm at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Thu 22 Apr 1999 - 15:29:14 IST
> Help me out here, this is really starting to piss me off :o( Does a single
> decent mail client exist for X. I've tried em all Arrow, Netscape etc etc
> etc.
>
> What I want is very simple.... A nice graphical client that will read in
> the mail, and due to the fact that I have sh1t loads of email addresses
> mapping to my main one, and am on a lot of lists, I want it to sort them
> into nice little folders for me. Mabey even there would be a way for it to
> show new mail is in a particular folder without having to check them all
> too. I refuse to use Netscape as the bloddy thing is a dog, and kills my
> computer when I leave it running.
>
> Does such a thing exist I ask you?
I use exmh on top of nmh, and procmail to sort things into folders.
Works like a charm.
Eg : in my .procmailrc, I have:
:0
* ^(To|Cc): .*linux.ie
| /usr/lib/mh/rcvstore +linux
to sort everything which comes in for a linux.ie address into the
"linux" folder. I have about 20 different rules for various things,
including a spam-catching one which puts suspected spam into a file, not
a folder, and so on...
Exmh is a nice tcl/tk frontend to MH, which is in itself a nice
message-handling system, although not to everyone's taste. It's also
handy when I don't have X available (eg, when sshing in from home) - I
can still use all of my mail functions.
Colm
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