Shawn <fertch at mninter.net> wrote: > > Everyone talks about using Pine, or other text based mail programs. I > was just curious as to how the text based mail programs relate and tie > in with web browsers. Maybe it's just easier for me to use Netscape > mail still. what I'm looking at though is to be able to get mail > outside of my browser so I don't have to run netscape in the background. > That's where I was thinking of using sendmail, besides it's already > installed. Maybe Pine would be a better option? Or, Bob had talked > about one that acts like Lookout. Sendmail is not meant to be used by humans. When sending a message through Sendmail, there isn't any interactive editing capability, and it provides no facility for reading messages. It's just meant to be used by mail client programs when they send messages. Anyway, if you want a text-based mail client, the two recommendations are usually for mutt and pine. If you want a good graphical client, join the club ;-) Actually, Sylpheed is getting pretty good. Last time I checked, Evolution wasn't able to compose new messages (at least on my system, so same difference), so it's not a great choice right now, IMHO. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ I eat swiss cheese from / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ the inside out. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ]