Life with no mail client-here's my comments on how and why.

[Luke -Jr]

On Friday 04 January 2008, David Nicol wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2008 1:24 PM, Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:
> > There are those who use emacs as their mail client.  I suppose one could
> > come up with a way to use cat and vi to read and edit, and you wouldn't
> > really call that using a client.  _That_ would be life with no mail
> > client.
>
> you could just telnet to your POP3 and SMTP servers; that would be
> using the telnet e-mail client

I don't believe either POP3 or SMTP support the Telnet protocol.
So using a Telnet client *might* work, but that is a coincidence from the 
simplicity of the protocols involved.