Mail, please.

Stephen D. Williams sdw at lig.net
Mon Sep 12 18:00:07 PDT 2016


On 9/12/16 4:54 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:29:09PM -0000, Liam E. wrote:
>> What is the most minimal setup for command-line mail on a system like Debian?
> "MUA and POP retriever."
>
> For ultra lightweight, use bsd-mailx
>
> For features, use alpine or mutt
>
> For retriever, getmail or mpop. Fetchmail is way too slow.

I always use imap, for many reasons, including using multiple client machines simultaneously while keeping the authoritative version
on the server.  Use an imap backup to mbox files, which does efficient delta updates, then a local client on those.

sdw

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