also sprach Cliff Friedel (on Wed, 13 Dec 2000 07:45:41PM -0500):
If you are looking for sheer functionality and don't mind using the console, then the pine/procmail combo is the best that I have come across. Granted it is archaic, but it really is pretty powerful once you get past the lack of GUI.
except pine's folder handling is pretty bad i find. and pine is (a) a security problem, and (b) very cpu/memory intensive. i am using procmail to deliver to Maildir folders which I use with mutt, and mutt's macros and configuration allow me to do whatever i want. and it's soooo much better than a GUI just because it's fast over SSH. i have yet to see a GUI mail client (even on windoze) which provides all the functionality mutt provides... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net -- never underestimate the power of human stupidity.