Re: [PLUG] Configuring Mutt or another email program

["Michael Leone" <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

> You can still use them together, but Netscape doesn't support it.  You'd
> have to do everything manually, which would be a real pain.
>
> Mutt has an excellent gpg/pgp infrastructure in place.  If you'd like, I
> can mail Debian's /etc/Muttrc to you; it has the proper commands already
> set up.

If you're looking for a GUI mail client, both Evolution (in Gnome 1.4) and
KMail (in KDE) are very nice; support multiple accounts; and support
signing/encrypting/decrypting with either pgp or gpg. KMail imports Netscape
mail, and - I think - Evo does, too.

> Another note: mutt has IMAP support builtin, but in keeping with the
> Unix philosophy (of each program doing one thing and doing it extremely
> well instead of monolithic programs that do many things, but not
> necessarily well), it doesn't do POP or SMTP.  Setting up an MTA can be
> an adventure in and of itself, but I hear that fetchmail is pretty
> straightforward to set up.

FYI, Evo & KMail will do POP3/IMAP without the need for a separate MTA,
which is nice for a single user system (or even a few-user system). Just
point your SMTP at your ISP's mail server.





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