"How would you feel about running a Java application on your home PC,
which would pick up all your mail from your shells, and then let you
view it via a (cool) web interface? Is this the kind of thing you're
thinking of?"

while i was actually not interested in having to read my mail through
a browser (i dont much like the mouse and i usually am unsatisfied
with browser editors [im much too attached to emacs]), i am willing to
see how this works.  please go ahead and answer this question here.  i
wish to leave the other answer open for an answer that might let me
continue to use mutt or pine.

thank you again!

Hi there! I'm honoured to be requested by name.

The application I'm referring to is called Zoe. It's located here:

http://guests.evectors.it/zoe/

It's rather eccentric and is certainly an alpha product, but I feel it
has strong potential and I'm rather enamoured of it. You run it on
your home PC (where it defaults to running on port 10080). You can set
it up to access multiple POP3 or IMAP accounts, and it pulls them all
together in a stylish XHTML compliant webpage, which you then can of
course access from anywhere. It has plenty of features, some good,
some gimmicky, but I'd definitely recommend taking a look at it.
You'll need an up to date Java runtime, and a standards compliant
browser (IE6 and Mozilla 1.1 seem to render everything fine).

It attempts to abstract the details, and extract the information.
Thus, emails are all presented seamlessly on the front page, and it
automatically extracts URLs from the email in case you want to visit
them. It's a different approach, which has plenty of merits, but it's
entirely a matter of taste whether you'll like it or not.

If you're a keyboard addict, then it may irritate you, because the tab
order can be a little flakey at times. But I imagine they'll be fixing
things as they go.

I don't want to evangelise :-) so I'll leave it for you to take a look
at.

Good luck with your ongoing hunt for a mutt-specific solution.

Thanks,

--seizer-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by banchan-ga on 13 Nov 2002 15:11 PST

hmm.  im not sure, but i cant seem to add a comment right now.  :|

but yay for mozilla!  i do like the latest phoenix, btw.  i will
consider using this and give it a good go, just to see what happens. 
:)

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Clarification of Answer by seizer-ga on 13 Nov 2002 15:23 PST

Thank you for the kind rating.

Phoenix is looking better and better, I agree. But it still shows its
pre-1.0 nature, and I'm very happy with Moz 1.1, so I'm not shifting
yet.

Good luck with Zoe!

thank you very much!