[ale] good imap mail client?

Joe Bayes jbayes at bronze37.mminternet.com
Mon Jun 14 13:44:16 EDT 1999


Michael D. Hirsch typeth:

>I suddenly find that I need to read mail from several different servers from
>several different machines.  It seems clear to me that IMAP is the
>right way to go.  I can keep all my mail folders on one, or several,
>servers.  POP seems way too restrictive.
>
>Can y'all recommend a decent IMAP client?  I have to say that netscape seemed
>really klunky.  On a sun I can use dtmail, though I'd rather use the same
>client on every machine and the others are all linux.
>
>Ideally, of course, I could find an IMAP client for emacs, but I haven't seen
>one, yet :)

I'm pretty sure that recent versions of vm
(http://www.wonderworks.com/vm/) support imap. I haven't tried out the
imap support, though.

Let me know if you decide to try it out; I've got a homebrew rpm that
fixes some annoying problems. 

--joe






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