Re: NetBSD mail client

[eric%cirr.com@localhost (Eric Schnoebelen)]

Brook Milligan writes:
- I have to manage thousands of email messages in my inbox and am
- looking for a mail client that will handle this well.  Every one I
- have tried so far maintains the messages in mbox format, which leads
- to massively large files even when split apart into various folders.
- I think it would be better if the messages were managed by the client
- in maildir format instead so that each message is a single file.
- 
- Are there any recommendations on what would be useful for this?

I've long used mh/nmh.. Look in pkgsrc/mail/nmh for the
installation.  

Warning, nmh uses the shell for the vast majority of its
environment, if you're looking for a GUI, xmh can provide a very
rudementary one.

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