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Pros and Cons of Mail Readers



On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Larry Smith wrote:

I think you'll have a happier and more productive life if you:
1) Have your SYSOP install POP and SMTP server software on your VAX, and
2) Run the free Eudora client software (available for both platforms).

Unless there is a _reason_ you read mail directly on the VAX.....

I still use and like PINE primarily because doing so allows me access to
my mail and all my mail files in identical form from any machine in the
world that is connected to the internet and has a telnet client. Using a
pop mail client certainly has a number of important advantages that I'd
like to be able to take advantage of, but it tends to restrict you to a
single machine both because your files are only available on that machine
(unless you "leave mail on the server," keep multiple, unsynchronized
sets of mail files on different machines, or have unraveled the mysteries
of IMAP) and because the program itself is less generally available on
machines you may find elsewhere.

BTW, in Pine Jim's "A0"s show up as the dagger symbol that most fonts
assign to that extended ASCII code.

John
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