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From: roberto@brainstorm.eu.org (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: email clients...
Date: 27 Dec 1996 17:43:43 GMT
Organization: Usenet Canal Historique
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In article <32C321D3.1DFF@javanet.com>,
John Szumowski <harpo@javanet.com> wrote:
> Are there any email clients available for textmode? I have netscape
> working just fine in X (although i'm using 95 now...) with a smtp
> server. I tried pine, but i could never get it to connect, so i zapped
> it. I had "domainname: javanet.com" (forget the exact op) and "smtp
> server: mail.javanet.com". However, this didn't help, and pine never
> seemed to check with the server. If it helps, i have a dynamic ip
> address at a dial-in account.
Check out Mutt. It has an POP interface, is fast, supports mail threads
and many more things. It is still beta software although it works
pretty well.
<URL:http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~me/mutt/>
<URL:http://mutt.frmug.org/>
> (also...an unrelated question. i recently installed the color_xterm
> package and lost my Xaw3d scrollbars. any hints for how to get them
> back?)
Install XFree86 3.2, the xterm is color compatible. If you want all Xaw
program to use Xaw3d, then put Xaw3d as Xaw or recompile xterm explicitely
with -lXaw3d.
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