[UCLA-LUG] Evolution

John Wenger JohnWenger@EarthLink.Net
Mon, 01 May 2000 15:47:39 -0700


Matt Helsley wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Mark James Fasheh wrote:
> > Seriously.  A while back, I took a 'tour' of all the free gui e-mail clients I
> > could find, and they all sucked hard.  It seems like everyone and their
> > mother is writing a gtk+/gnome mail reader, but none of them know how to
> > make a good one (as if it were that complicated).  Anyways, I'm stuck on
> > mutt at the moment, after being beaten to death with anti-pine propaganda (Leonard!  switch over :)
> > Hello, my name is brain-washed!
> >       --Mark
> I use pine. I find it easier to use and I have no reason to migrate to
> mutt. Furthermore, I did look for a GUI mail client but when I discovered
> how insecure my e-mail transactions would have to be, I decided against
> it.
> 
> L8r.

Matt,

What are the security weaknesses of the xmh mail client?

Would running Fetchmail as a MDA get around whatever
security weaknesses you found in xmh?

John