"o" == otahler <otah...@gmx.ca> o> The ones I came across so far (though I have not ried them o> yet) are: 1) xmh (obsolete, I assume) 2) MH-E 3) exmh 4) o> MH-V
I started by using the command-line tools back in... 1990?* with Emacs as my editor.** Later I spent some years using exmh, until it seemed like development had completely stopped, at which point I looked at mh-e again and found that it would do everything I need. So I currently use mh-e (for something like 12 years) alongside the command-line programs, which are particularly handy when you just want to do a quick check on a message without worrying about replying. I've tried various other mail clients, including Novell GroupWise and Eudora during my painful Windows years, but I always end up coming back to MH/nmh. It does things by default that many mail clients don't. (A really simple example I've run into again and again: aliases -- done right with MH/nmh, not present at all or clunky on other clients.) Also, I've occasionally looked at GNU mailutils, as I mostly use mh-e and it works with them, but I've never been able to figure out some fundamentals about making it work, which has helped to keep me using nmh, where everything does just work. In general, I'd like to recommend MH/nmh to anyone, but I find that it's just totally inappropriate for most of my end users, who are used to and expect shiny, OS-native graphical mail clients, and don't need or don't want to deal with MH/nmh for the additional power. Claire * Holy crap! ** Thanks to Jerry Peek when he was at Syracuse University and got MH to be the main Unix mail client! *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Claire Connelly c...@math.hmc.edu System Administrator (909) 621-8754 Department of Mathematics Harvey Mudd College *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* For System News: http://www.math.hmc.edu/computing/news/ or http://twitter.com/hmcmathcomp/. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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