Console-based mail clients and MS Exchange servers

evoweiss

Hi there,

My work has switched over to an MS Exchange server and claws-mail, which was working fine before, has now become very slow, crashes a lot, and is just annoying. I wondered whether anybody has found a good console-based email client solution for this? I use pine at home, but that's connected to my gmail account and works fine.

Best,

Alex

moult · Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 11:09 am Post subject:

mutt?
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steveL · Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 11:00 am Post subject:

Yeah, mutt rocks.

If you're used to pine, you'll love it.

Here's some tips on setup (though not gmail, or Exchange.)

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

You can continue using pine, by setting up Davmail to provide pine an imap interface to exchange ( http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ ).
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Princess Nell · l33t Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 916

Place of $ORK switched to hosted exchange years ago, and I could never get davmail to work with it. Still using mutt, message receive via fetchmail and procmail filtering, sending via local smtp and corp internal mailhost. Haven't investigated whether direct smtp from mutt is possible, but I suspect it is, based on experience with gmail and other providers. For the (rare) uses of calendar, thunderbird does the trick, but that's not a console based solution, of course.

steveL · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 11:42 am Post subject:

@Nell: I do a similar thing, but using getmail, which can do a lot itself, instead of fetchmail, in conjunction with procmail. [same link as above.]

As for calendar, I've always used my phone. ;)

evoweiss · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2015 1:58 pm Post subject:

Hi all,

I will give it a go. I know that pine can deal with imap directly. I don't really use calender features, so that's not really a loss.

Best,

Alex