On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 01:36:07AM -0600, Dan Churchill wrote: > All right. I've stated before how I would consider a Linux desktop, > except it would cause me issues with games that only work under > Windows, and thus I was staying with Windows and the Outlook e-mail > client because it really is the most functional desktop e-mail client > for my needs. This is a common view. > But, I had (made) some time to tinker. I've set up Cygwin/XFree86 on > my Windows box. I'm running an rhost-ed instance of my Linux desktop > on the X server on my Windows box, essentially putting a Linux desktop > on my primary PC, which allows me to keep my games for running under > Windows, and still use my Linux desktop apps without moving to a > different console. And, I'm just writing to say that it's great! This is a great option if you have the resources for multiple computers. Way to go! Cygwin is an excellent product. Red Hat certainly put a few feathers in their cap by adopting Cygwin. > I'm in the process of converting my Outlook .pst file to KMail mbox > format, which is a less than an exact science using LibPST v0.2beta1 > (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=18756&release_id=74639), > but it will be functional enough to get most of my mail moved out of > the proprietary .pst format, which makes me *very* happy. Thank you for the link. I've got some old email archives I'd love to move over from way back in '97. > Now, what is the best text-based e-mail client that can use the same > mbox files as KMail, for when I'm accessing mail remotely. I know > there are a lot of them...but what are people's favorites and what > features make your favorite work best for you? For mbox formatted email either mutt or pine are the two best console-based email clients. Mutt, IMHO, is far better than pine will ever be. ;-) One advantage to pine, however, is that it reads newsgroups as well as email. Mutt /may/ do so as well, but I haven't found a need to explore that avenue. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Get my public key, ICQ#, etc. $(mailx -s 'get info' chewie at wookimus.net) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020214/5a9f3b17/attachment.pgp