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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 05:48:41PM -0800, Lee Forrest wrote:
> 
> Mutt is an MUA. It doesn't send mail to a mailserver or retrieve
> mail from a popserver.

Mutt, starting from a certain version (by now a fairly old version), 
communicates with pop 
and imap servers. So it's not true that it won't retrieve mail from a 
popserver--at least if 
we're talking about a version say, 4 years old or less. But it does not do 
smtp, that's 
true. I'm using esmtp to send mail using Mutt, and msmtp is another option 
for a 
stripped-down program for sending, as you've mentioned. I don't know if esmtp 
has libc6 
dependencies though.

Pine might be a good choice for you, since it can communicate with both 
pop/imap servers as 
well as smtp servers. I wrote up some directions for installing and 
configuring it under 
BL2, and those could probably be easily adapted to BL3. Steven used to have 
those directions 
among his FAQ material on BL2, but I'm not sure those directions are still 
available. The 
package(s?) I used came from Slack 7.1, but I'm just sure Pine would be in 
Slack 4.0 as 
well. Might be worth looking at.

I actually prefer to use Pine, but it was having some trouble fetching 
certain e-mails so I 
switched to Mutt (on my Ubuntu system). A new version of Pine is due out very 
soon that is 
pretty much a rewrite from the ground up, though it keeps the same basic 
interface. Handles 
unicode and does other things Pine can't. It's called Alpine, is released 
under the Apache 
license and is still in beta.

James