On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote: I use mutt (text-based) on my laptop, connecting to Gmail via IMAP. When I get non-text stuff I can just hit a key and open it in a browser or picture viewer. It works pretty well, but I wish it didn't take so long to load the headers each time (they're supposed to be cached but it sure takes a while to go to my "All Mail" folder with its 33,000+ messages). I'm considering doing something that actually downloads my Gmail content locally and keeps it in sync periodically, but I haven't really looked at what's necessary for that. One thing I'd love would be a way to change some threads as mutt sees them -- the client has had the ability to associate messages with or disassociate messages from a thread manually for years, but it seems that when I do that, Gmail later reverses my decision. I'm not sure how I could keep synchrony with Gmail *and* have that. -- Eric Christopherson

On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Jason Howe wrote: I am reading this with Pine on my VMS Alphaserver 4100 as usual. I did not know that alpine was available for VMS, I will have to look into that. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : "Anybody can be a father Athabasca University : but you have to earn Athabasca, Alberta Canada : the title of 'daddy'" ** richardlo at admin.athabascau.ca ** : - Lynn Johnston

On 20/11/2015 19:39, Eric Christopherson wrote: You could use fetchmail to snarf it and any IMAP server to make it available as you like - I use UW imapd, which is pretty lightweight. -- Pete

On 11/20/2015 09:24 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: I thought Yahoo was free either way? -- --- Dave Woyciesjes --- ICQ# 905818 --- CompTIA A+ Certified IT Tech -http://certification.comptia.org/ --- HDI Certified Support Center Analyst -http://www.ThinkHDI.com/ Registered Linux user number 464583 "Computers have lots of memory but no imagination." "The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back." - from some guy on the internet.

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015, Pete Turnbull wrote: True, but my concern is that if I made changes in my local copy to better suit me, the official Gmail copy would eventually conflict with it pretty badly. I admit I haven't investigated the issue, though. -- Eric Christopherson

On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, Angel M Alganza via cctalk wrote: ^ example A minor problem - A lot of mail that I receive won't display pro[perly on PINE (such as the first letter of your name in your signature! I end up forwarding some mail FROM PINE, TO GMail to be able to read it!

It was thus said that the Great Fred Cisin via cctalk once stated: I have: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C as part of my environment, and I'm using a font that supports UTF-8. Then again, I'm using mutt, which supports locales and so it's only the really malformed emails that end up garbled on my end. Note---UTF-8 is now 25 years old, so it should be fine for this list 8-P -spc

On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 3:13 AM, Angel M Alganza via cctalk < cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: Gracias, ?ngel. As a matter of fact I *haven't* done any work on that front lately. I will be sure to check these out. I can't remember how long I've been using it (but apparently for at least two years), but I use Gmail's IMAP via mutt. I know a lot of people like *pine but when I first started seriously playing around with text-mode Linux (since I installed it on a system that I figured was too wimpy to support X) I started using mutt for local and POP/SMTP mail and have always really liked it. I use alpine in a shell account on a remote server I use, but I'm always cursing the way it helpfully offers to automatically archive and/or delete old messages. I know at least once I've accidentally hit a key giving it permission to do its thing, with no chance of undoing it. I thought I had turned that off somehow, but the last time I used it it happened again. I'm pretty sure the first *nix email client I used was elm. I seem to remember liking it better than pine, but I don't remember why. -- Eric Christopherson