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> I am facing the fact that exmh has been left behind in some industry
> standards.  I use it for my personal mail.  My mail server runs unix,
> and I connect over ssh and tunnel my X traffic over ssh.  With a slow
> link, this makes exmh very slow.  And mime handling is pretty bad
> compared with modern mailers.

These are some good comments and I'd like to share an opinion here.  (Is that permitted? :)

I started using linux about 8 or 9 years ago in rebellion against what the university was doing with Winder$.  I just couldn't get good support and was using a lot of unix-based tools (ported to Winder$) anyway. So, I jumped ship and became my own sysadm.

What I got was the easy ability to use a shell (now ssh) to connect to my office box from just about anywhere and use either exmh or nmh (from the command line).  I can do email for the office fairly easily.

I haven't seen any other tools that let me do that yet.  But, I have to admit, that some of the web-based mail software is getting pretty close.  Quoting and such is still primitive, but they're moving forward.

-=d



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