On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:34:47 -0500 Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote:
> On 2009-07-25 23:55, Celejar wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:24:28 -0500 > > Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote: > > > >> On 2009-07-24 00:07, Celejar wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> Sylpheed suffers from the same problem; my workaround is to maintain a > >>> working getmail configuration, and when I know that I have a lot of > >>> mail queued, my connection is slow, or I just want to use Sylpheed now > >>> instead of waiting, I just download the mail from the cli with getmail, > >>> and subsequently have Sylpheed incorporate it into its mail store > >>> (which is a relatively quick process, even for fairly large amounts of > >>> mail). > >> Why not feed it directly to procmail or maildrop? > > > > Maildrop, which I sometimes use, doesn't support the MH mailstores that > > Sylpheed uses (by default). I suppose that I could use the nmh > > utilities, but why bother? > > Or migrate away from mh in order to achieve the benefits of an MDA? Again, why bother? What problem am I trying to solve? Sylph's built-in MDA has the filtering capabilities that I need, and if I ever actually do need the features of a dedicated MDA, I can always use my gotmail configuration, delivering to the spool and subsequently incorporating. I understand that using a GUI for MRA / MDA functionality is not the most Unixy way to do things, but it works fine for my needs. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org