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Re: E-Mail Program for Linux

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From: Defaultuser
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 00:00
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Paul Colquhoun wrote:

> On 27 Oct 97 19:04:01 , Tony Langdon <tlang@freeway.DIALix.oz.au>
> wrote:
> |It's 27 Oct 97  04:11,
> |We'll return to pasousa@maths.warwick.ac.uk and All's
> |discussion of E-Mail Program for Linux
> |
> | pa> I am looking for a good program to read/send e-mail for Linux.
> Can
> | pa> somebody help me?
> |
> |If you're after text based, try Pine.  I use it almost exclusively on
>
> |Linus/UNIX systems.
>
> If you are running X and want a graphical mail program,
> try a search for XFMail
>
> I've been using it for a week or so, and have found it quite
> nice.  Not quite as "pretty" as Eudora, but has almost the same
> set of functions ( some better, some worse ), including PGP support
> although I havn't gotten arround to setting that up yet...
>

I also recommend Messenger (the mail client bundled with Communicator).
It's a lot more slick than XFMail and in my experience also (amazingly
for Netscape) very stable too.  It also has virtually all the features
of XFMail so if you can take the bloat of Communicator then I recommend
giving it a look.
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