Re: [9fans] mail client; general question web vs command

["Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)" <lyndon@orthanc.ca>]

> I've been using a gmail account with the usual access via a web
> browser for quite a while.
> Sometimes I get little angry when using it, for various reasons, often
> due to the firefox's slowness to render the page (scrolling a longer
> thread is often pain for me).
> I'd like to ask you. Do you use some client like e.g. mutt / heirloom
> mailx / some plan9 client, and find its utility superior to a
> web-based way?

At Flock we used Gmail as our corporate email service :-P I just
pointed upas/fs at Google's IMAP servers and carried on using Acme
Mail and nedmail as usual.  htmlfmt(1) is a superior HTML mail
reader, in my books.

Using a small rc script it was trivial to run two distinct mail client
instances on my terminal — one pointed at Google for work mail, the
other pointed at my own IMAP server for personal mail.

Like Eric, I used nedmail as a dumb threading tool.  It was very
useful as a brute force defence against all the cron spam our servers
sent out.  I would run a script that invoked nedmail to whack all the
usual suspects based on subject, from, and to headers, then read the
leftovers in Acme.  Upas also made it very simple to write adhoc
scripts to usefully process all that cron spam, something you'll never
be able to do with a webmail client.

--lyndon