I break out lynx every once in a while. Mainly for upgrading stuff like remote Apache web servers. Of course, that was just my home server and only when they had the recent vulnerability, but still... :)
-----Original Message----- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 7:27 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Wanted: Plain text email client I especially like its calendaring functionality. :o) Do you use lynx for your browser? It has a Win32 version you know. (just teasing) -----Original Message----- From: Jay Libove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 5:06 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Wanted: Plain text email client Several people have replied with a list of web sites talking about the evails of HTML or offering several non-HTML email clients. Nobody made a specific suggestion. I use PINE (http://www.washington.edu/pine). PINE is available in source code. It is available as precompiled binaries for a variety of UNIX systems as well as for Windows. It speaks POP3, IMAP (which is how I have it access my Exchange server), and possibly additional protocols to mail servers, as well as a variety of local UNIX mailbox formats (MMDF, MH, plain old UNIX mbx). It can be compiled to use SSL to protect communications between client and server, Kerberos for strong authentication to either Windows 2000 or real MIT Kerberos domains, and NIS+ (with an appropriate IMAP daemon) for those few Sun sites which have actually implemented NIS+. It understands attachments. It actually can semi-display HTML code, but only based on a minimal built-in interpreter which you can disable with a simple option. It supports multiple mail inboxes (servers), folders, and collections of folders. It has an address book, and many other useful functions. It is in short a highly flexible and powerful client which is network-efficient, slow dialup connection friendly, and immune to the raft of Outlook and Internet Explorer library related bugs. (Of course, if you receive an email with a virus .exe on it, select the attachment, and run it, you can still be infected if you're running PINE on Windows). I run PINE from Linux. Do read the FAQs. They contain important information about many things you should know to help get PINE working correctly in various environments, especially with an Exchange server serving IMAP to a PINE client. -Jay Libove On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Rob Wilcox wrote: > I just wondered if someone could recommend a really straight forward > simple email client, which handles plain text emails. I don't want it > to be able to do HTML mail, either sending or receiving. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm
