On Sun, 7 Jul 2013, Jason White wrote: > Andrew McGlashan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I find TB on the whole to be the best MUA -- but when it gets stuck on > > downloading mail, I just switchover to Squirrel mail so it can continue > > on without frustrating me too much. > > > > The one thing that is most lacking with TB is actual mail storage > > options, I really want TB to use storage like offline IMAP..... that > > would help a great deal. > > Another problem with TB is that it won't read /var/mail/$USER or any other > mbox or maildir folder for incoming messages. It assumes you have a > client/server arrangement where the MTA is running on another machine, which > is precisely not my configuration.
But then it helpfully downloads all the messages and stores them in a big huge essentially mbox file in ~ instead. Sigh. > rather, I'm running Postfix locally and > using Procmail to filter the messages as they arrive. People point and laugh at me when they see me using (al)pine. Oh, how primitive! Yeah, but I can grep for my mail, and you have to use Outhouse and rely on the sexchange sewer returning valid search results, which it doesn't do when I search for a known phrase in my mailbox and it only returns 3 copies out of the 7 I was able to find with grep. -- Tim Connors _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
