From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 9DD081EF6B1; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 01:58:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mrsbun.icsmail.net (mrsbun.icsmail.net [69.5.139.23]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36B601EF56E for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 01:58:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mrsbun.icsmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC14CF086A7 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:58:36 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mrsbun.icsmail.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mrsbun.icsmail.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32209-01 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:58:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: from giant.collinsnet.net (ics145-56.icsincorporated.com [69.5.145.56]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mrsbun.icsmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A069ED0462 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:58:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: from collins (helo=giant.collinsnet.net) by giant.collinsnet.net with local-esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UsoB7-0006ib-Cc for speakup@linux-speakup.org; Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:58:33 -0500 Message-Id: From: acollins@icsmail.net To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: reccommended email client with speakup In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 29 Jun 2013 14:00:29 +1000. <20130629040029.GA8481@jdc.jasonjgw.net> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:58:33 -0500 Sender: collins@icsmail.net X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.2 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.2 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 05:58:37 -0000 I have used nmh for the last 20 years, and loveit! Not only does it give you a suite of small shell commands to work with, but it stores messages in individual files with in a Mail folder in your home directory. That means you can use other utilities on the system to help manipulate mail. It's also expensible, so you can write other shell commands, or even programs in c or python. I used to use fetchmail to get my mail from my isp's server, but something they changed broke it, so it could no longer authorize itself, and thus, couldn't get mail. So, I switched over to something called mpop, and call it from a script running as a back ground job. That works quite well, and has the nice advantage of lettingme play a newmail sound, when ever it detects mail on the server. Geme >Chris Brannon wrote: > >> I'm also a gnus fan. It has a bit of a learning curve, but it is quite >> capable. >> > >Agreed. It supports NNTP newsgroups as well, including gmane.org. >> I used to really love nmh, which is a suite of tools for mail handling. >> Instead of working inside a monolithic email program, the nmh user >> manipulates their email using various small shell commands. >> It's a totally different paradigm. >> Unfortunately, it doesn't play all that well with typical modern mail >> configurations. For instance, I keep my mail on a VPS, >> and I read it with IMAP, rather than pulling it down to my local machine. >> If you're willing to read mail from the shell on your mail server, or >> you're willing to pull it down to the local machine using getmail or >> fetchmail, then nmh works beautifully. > >I'm in that category; I should perhaps install nmh at some point. > >The new tool which is starting to attract attention in the Linux community is >NotMuch (http://www.notmuchmail.org/). > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@linux-speakup.org >http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup