On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:02:42 +0530 Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kumaran+deb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> writes: > > > On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 01:43 -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > >> On Thursday, November 15, 2012 01:09:31 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> > Shortcuts to resize the view do > >> > work for Thunar, Xfce's file browser. Such shortcuts depend to > >> > the applications you're using, the view shortcuts are at least > >> > common for all web browsers I know. > >> > >> I've found <CTRL><mouse wheel> works on a number of apps to scale > >> the fonts and/or entire window content, in KDE, Gnome and (now) > >> XFCE. If I can replace kmail, I can drop KDE completely (even > >> though I might miss kmahjonng and kpatience, a tleast for a while). > > > > I'm looking for a good GUI MUA that allow me to use one source for > > the mails from different Linux installs on a Linux multi-boot > > machine. > > > > I had good luck using different versions of Evolution sharing one > > maildir, but one install ships with Evolution 3.6 and this version > > completely doesn't work on my machine. When I try to use Evolutions > > maildir with Claws or Kmail it doesn't work. > > > > I'm willing to abandon this maildir and to start a new "source > > directory" to share mails. > > > > Evolution already replaced Mozillas (Thunderbird, Iceweasel, > > Seamonkey etc.), since sharing mails is much easier to set up, when > > using Evolution, at least it was easier, I don't know if it's > > possible today to share emails very easy using Mozillas. > > > > One solution (which I use) is to run an imap server off your maildir, > then access the mail using any IMAP-capable MUA. That should solve > your incompatible-storage-format problem. I use dovecot as my imap > server, and access it using gnus. There are several howtos on > setting up dovecot. > > I also use notmuch to index the maildir, and I'm considering just > switching to the notmuch emacs mode for reading email. I made less good experiences when using IMAP, e.g. thousands of mails once were loaded 2 times. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121115101752.441f3c5f@qrc