Re: The dangers of .mbox mail clients?

2024-06-04 Thread Max Nikulin
On 04/06/2024 02:08, Chris M wrote: I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox format to store emails. It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client. You may configure local IMAP server (e.g. dovecot) to store your archive. It allows

Re: WAS: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ).. NOW~~The dangers of .mbox mail clients?

2024-06-03 Thread David Wright
On Mon 03 Jun 2024 at 14:08:46 (-0500), Chris M wrote: > I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox > format to store emails. > It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client. > > Is there any "dangers" I need

Re: The dangers of .mbox mail clients?

2024-06-03 Thread Chris M
Felix Miata wrote: As I'm up 24/7, I never bother going "offline" in SM. What I meant was, I always click in SM: File > Offline > Work Offline That way SM isn't doing anything in the background while I am compacting folders. OLD bad habit, I know.

Re: The dangers of .mbox mail clients?

2024-06-03 Thread Felix Miata
Chris M composed on 2024-06-03 14:08 (UTC-0500): > Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping the mailbox a > certain size? > or a certain amount of emails per folder etc? ... > I always go offline, and then compact my folders after I get done > reading emails. In SM at least, s

WAS: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ).. NOW~~The dangers of .mbox mail clients?

2024-06-03 Thread Chris M
I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox format to store emails. It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client. Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping the mailbox a certain size? or a certain amount of em

Re: Mail clients

2012-10-22 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU writes: > Here's the snippet I use: > > > # Use everything that looks like a mailbox in ~/Maildir/ > # except the ones explicitely excluded > mailboxes ! + `\ > for file in ~/Maildir/.*; do \ > box=$(basename "$file"); \ > if [ ! "$box" = '.' -a ! "$box" = '..' \ >

Re: Mail clients

2012-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 22 oct 12, 15:41:48, lee wrote: > > Have you looked at the documentation of mutt? It talks about mail > folders. It also talks about directories. It cannot rename folders or > directories and it cannot (re-)move them (the argument is that mutt > isn't a file manager), and it doesn't real

Re: Mail clients

2012-10-22 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:10:09AM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > On 21/10/12 10:51, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Could you please elaborate on that? As far as I can tell it's just a > > matter of configuring mutt correctly (the defaults are not really > > optimal). Mutt + Gmail, now that is a cha

Re: Mail clients

2012-10-22 Thread lee
Chris Bannister writes: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 05:58:59PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Mutt isn't designed with the concept of folders in mind. It merely >> acknowledges the concept because the mails need to be stored >> /somewhere/. > > You mean it doesn't work out of the box and requires some confi

Re: Mail clients

2012-10-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 05:58:59PM +0200, lee wrote: > Mutt isn't designed with the concept of folders in mind. It merely > acknowledges the concept because the mails need to be stored > /somewhere/. You mean it doesn't work out of the box and requires some configuration? Hey, JFYI most good soft

Re: Mail clients [was: Re: Wally Lepore]

2012-10-21 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Sb, 20 oct 12, 06:54:21, lee wrote: >> >> Wally wants to learn some C programming, thus I suggested he learn emacs >> and might use gnus and try out vim and/or joe, whatever he likes best. >> Perhaps I should have mentioned mutt as well, but mutt with imap can be >> r

Re: Mail clients [was: Re: Wally Lepore]

2012-10-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 21 oct 12, 11:10:09, Erwan David wrote: > On 21/10/12 10:51, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Mutt + Gmail, now that is a challenge! > > > Not really, the challenge is mutt + heavy html emails... > GMail is easy once you activate imap and use mutt as an imap reader (in > that case it's better to u

Re: Mail clients [was: Re: Wally Lepore]

2012-10-21 Thread Erwan David
On 21/10/12 10:51, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 20 oct 12, 06:54:21, lee wrote: >> >> Wally wants to learn some C programming, thus I suggested he learn emacs >> and might use gnus and try out vim and/or joe, whatever he likes best. >> Perhaps I should have mentioned mutt as well, but mutt with i

Mail clients [was: Re: Wally Lepore]

2012-10-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 20 oct 12, 06:54:21, lee wrote: > > Wally wants to learn some C programming, thus I suggested he learn emacs > and might use gnus and try out vim and/or joe, whatever he likes best. > Perhaps I should have mentioned mutt as well, but mutt with imap can be > rather awkward. Could you please

Re: Searching inside e-mail clients (was: KMail - forwarding issues)

2010-11-05 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 07:01:28 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:35:31 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:48:30 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> with mbox and searching strings in Icedove is bit slow if mbox files > >> are big (measured in GiB :-

Searching inside e-mail clients (was: KMail - forwarding issues)

2010-11-05 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:35:31 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:48:30 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > ... > >> with mbox and searching strings in Icedove is bit slow if mbox files >> are big (measured in GiB :-P). > > If you're still doing on-demand searching, have you considered us

Re: Mail clients attaching files (was Re: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system)

2010-03-23 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 03:29:05 Ron Johnson wrote: > Next time you attach such a file, I suggest that you add a ".txt" so > that your email/webmail app knows that it is a text file, instead of > base64 encoded application/octet-stream. > > (Iceweasel/Thunderbird seems to "peek" into it, probably

Re: Mail clients attaching files (was Re: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system)

2010-03-22 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:29:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-22 21:56, Mike Viau wrote: >> Attached for you convenience! >> sourced from: Debian Lenny > > Next time you attach such a file, I suggest that you add a ".txt" so > that your email/webmail app knows that it is a text file,

RE: Mail clients attaching files (was Re: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system)

2010-03-22 Thread Mike Viau
Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:29:05 -0500 wrote: > > On 2010-03-22 21:56, Mike Viau wrote: > > Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:29:01 -0400 wrote: > > > > > > On 23:37 Fri 19 Mar , Mike Viau wrote: > > > > > > My output with the suggestion above. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > debian:~# dpkg --dry-run --pu

Mail clients attaching files (was Re: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system)

2010-03-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-22 21:56, Mike Viau wrote: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:29:01 -0400 wrote: > > On 23:37 Fri 19 Mar , Mike Viau wrote: > > > > My output with the suggestion above. > > > > > > > > > > > > debian:~# dpkg --dry-run --purge $(join -v2 <(awk '{if ($2=="install") > > > > print $1}' < debian-

Funky e-mail clients [Was] Re: why linux?

2007-05-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:22:38PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Mail clients known to reply funky: > > Outlook, Outlook Express (top posted by default, no viable fix except > switching) > > GMail (breaks threading, any workarounds??). SMTP ;) Regards, Andrei -- If yo

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arafangion wrote: > George Borisov wrote: > >> Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> [snip] > You may be required to use the proprietary "Ximian Evolution" which is > the same as the free version, but it contains a module that allows it to > talk to Exchan

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-25 Thread Arafangion
George Borisov wrote: >Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > >>Hi, >>Which other e-mail clients, other than Evolution, can I access >>MS-exchange accounts with? I tried and failed with Thunderbird. >> >> > >I use Thunderbird with our Exchange through

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-25 Thread George Borisov
Dmitri Minaev wrote: > > And both Evolution and Thunderbird as IMAP clients are PITA to work > with . Thunderbird sometimes can't copy the outgoing message into Sent > Items folder [1]. Yup, but this seems to be more of a problem with Exchange IMAP component. In the same client I am connected to m

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-24 Thread Dmitri Minaev
Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > Which other e-mail clients, other than Evolution, can I access > MS-exchange accounts with? I tried and failed with Thunderbird. I use Thunderbird with our Exchange through IMAP. Depends if your server has it enabled. Hope this helps, -- George Bori

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-24 Thread George Borisov
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > Which other e-mail clients, other than Evolution, can I access > MS-exchange accounts with? I tried and failed with Thunderbird. I use Thunderbird with our Exchange through IMAP. Depends if your server has it enabled. Hope this helps, -- Georg

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-24 Thread Mihira Fernando
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > Which other e-mail clients, other than Evolution, can I access > MS-exchange accounts with? I tried and failed with Thunderbird. MS Outlook on Wine ? Ace. -- Random Quotes From Megas XLR Coop: You see? The mysteries of the Universe are revealed

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-24 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 07:25:32PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >Which other e-mail clients, other than Evolution, can I access >MS-exchange accounts with? I tried and failed with Thunderbird. If the Exchange server is recent enough it supports IMAP. Talk to your system admin and ask

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-23 Thread Dmitri Minaev
desktop. There was a commercial solution from HP, called OpenMail, but it is not available anymore. You may find something useful on this page, though: http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/exchange.html On 5/23/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Which other e-mail clients, othe

Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-23 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, Which other e-mail clients, other than Evolution, can I access MS-exchange accounts with? I tried and failed with Thunderbird. malebo

Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-23 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, Which other e-mail clients, other than Evolution, can I access MS-exchange accounts with? I tried and failed with Thunderbird. malebo

Re: web-centric mail clients

2004-06-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Tom Allison wrote: I've been using squirrelmail as my web-mail interface. But I'm wondering what else it out there in Debian packages. Horde is 'da bomb. In addition to webmail, it also has a password changer (no need for shell access to change password), addressbook/contact manager (can connect

Re: web-centric mail clients

2004-06-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Take a look at http://turtle.ee.ncku.edu.tw/openwebmail/ It's pretty full-featured, and runs fairly nicely there's an online demo on that page somewhere that you can try out to get a feel for it. Tom Allison wrote: I've been using squirrelmail as my web-mail interface. But I'm wondering what

web-centric mail clients

2004-06-13 Thread Tom Allison
I've been using squirrelmail as my web-mail interface. But I'm wondering what else it out there in Debian packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sylpheed and mail clients (was: Can Kmail be used outside ofKDE)?

2002-12-22 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Shawn Lamson wrote: > Did you right click on "Mailbox (MH)" folder and "rebuild folder tree" ? No, but that does seem to fix it. I wonder why it keeps getting off in its counts. > >http://hank.org/images/sylpheed.png > That image looks just like mine - it looks lik

Re: Sylpheed and mail clients (was: Can Kmail be used outside ofKDE)?

2002-12-22 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 21:12:41 -0800 Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 08:31 AM 12/18/02 +, Carlos Sousa wrote: > > Sorry for taking so long to get back to this -- it's been one of those weeks. > > >On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:00:25 -0800 Bill Moseley wrote: > >> That version of Sylpheed

Re: Sylpheed and mail clients (was: Can Kmail be used outside of KDE)?

2002-12-21 Thread Bill Moseley
At 08:31 AM 12/18/02 +, Carlos Sousa wrote: Sorry for taking so long to get back to this -- it's been one of those weeks. >On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:00:25 -0800 Bill Moseley wrote: >> That version of Sylpheed doesn't seem to deal well with counting new >> messages, and when I use the threaded vi

Re: Sylpheed and mail clients (was: Can Kmail be used outside of KDE)?

2002-12-18 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:00:25 -0800 Bill Moseley wrote: > That version of Sylpheed doesn't seem to deal well with counting new > messages, and when I use the threaded view I seem to miss new > messages. I need to figure out how to show messages in *received* > order. Must be a temporary breakage.

Sylpheed and mail clients (was: Can Kmail be used outside of KDE)?

2002-12-17 Thread Bill Moseley
At 06:33 PM 12/17/02 -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote: >Short answer yes it can be used withouth KDE; as to your particular problem I don't know... have you tried sylpheed-claws as a mail agent? It is a lot lighter than say Evolution. I have tried sylpheed-claws -- I've tried using it a few times, quite

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-03-15 Thread Petro
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:37:06PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Alan James quotation: > > > I'd like to give maildir a go, so how do I convert MH to MailDir ? > > If you use procmail, just set up new empty maildir folders corresponding > to each of your old MH folders, edit .procmailrc t

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-03-15 Thread Alan James
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 12:25:31AM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:37:06PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > (and to know that they're in maildir format), then run all your old > > messages back through procmail again. > > I believe procmail comes with a utility called 'formai

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-03-14 Thread Chris Hilts
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:37:06PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > (and to know that they're in maildir format), then run all your old > messages back through procmail again. I believe procmail comes with a utility called 'formail' which you might find useful for this. Chris Hilts [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-03-14 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Alan James quotation: > I'd like to give maildir a go, so how do I convert MH to MailDir ? If you use procmail, just set up new empty maildir folders corresponding to each of your old MH folders, edit .procmailrc to use the new folders (and to know that they're in maildir format), then ru

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-03-14 Thread Alan James
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:59:15PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Alan James quotation: > > > Are you still using MH folders ? How'd you get mutt to show a list of MH > > folders with the new message count for each ? > > I converted my MH folders to maildir and now I use that. Mutt seems

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Alan James quotation: > Are you still using MH folders ? How'd you get mutt to show a list of MH > folders with the new message count for each ? I converted my MH folders to maildir and now I use that. Mutt seems to handle maildir better, and it's a better format in general (you don't h

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Alan James
sic question, why do I need two different > mail clients? Aside from the lack of point-and-click to select messages, > mutt has a pretty decent UI, and it's customizable enough that I was > able to work around the things that annoyed me the most about it. So > now I just use

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Craig Dickson
last time i ran mutt, and Sylpheed shows > whats new since I last ran sylpheed. > > This is only a very minor annoyance though, and I think I'll stick > with this configuration for a while. I found it a major annoyance, but maybe I just receive a lot more mail than you do. To me, also,

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Alan James
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:36:18 -0500 Bob Thibodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought I'd try Sylpheed after seing mention of it on this > list, but never felt like configuring another client. Now that > I've read it doesn't play nice with mutt, I'll just remove it. I've got it working reasonab

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 02:00:03 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I dunno. Don't have it installed anymore. Pretty recent version > > > of the non-claws version (last month or so). The memory leak was > > > a slow but substantial one. I was often leaving Sylpheed running > > > for

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 04:53:02 -0300 Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:06:10 -0800 > "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > > I dunno. Don't have it installed anymore. Pretty recent version > > of the non-claws version (last month or so). The memory leak was > > a s

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On 24 Feb 2002 20:28:56 + Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 19:55, Bill Moseley wrote: > > At 11:25 AM 02/24/02 -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > > > > Although I read that IMAP can be slow if you have many mailboxes (I have > > almost 100), and hundreds of messa

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:06:10 -0800 "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > I dunno. Don't have it installed anymore. Pretty recent version > of the non-claws version (last month or so). The memory leak was > a slow but substantial one. I was often leaving Sylpheed running > for days, but after a couple it w

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Bob Thibodeau
swimming a bit trying to limit my choices of mail clients to test. > > I'm wondering if someone can help narrow my choices. > > Background: Like many, I'm coming from a Windows environment. I've got > three linux machines under my desk and for a year now I've boot

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 06:30:17PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 21:56:23 -0800 > "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > > > Possibly dead? > > > > > Sylpheed: (which I just read about on this list). > > > > Works pretty well. Is fairly lightweight. I noticed it leaks a > >

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 21:56:23 -0800 "Eric G. Miller" wrote: > Possibly dead? > > > Sylpheed: (which I just read about on this list). > > Works pretty well. Is fairly lightweight. I noticed it leaks a > significant amount of memory over time (days). No idea about > IMAP support (think

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:41:54 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:33:55AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > > > Sylpheed is quite nice. I don't use it myself because I don't want to be > > dependent on an X app to read my mail (I use mutt), but my wife switched > > to Sylphee

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:22:22 -0800 Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin Michael P. Soulier quotation: > > > Sylpheed is excellent I'm told. > > Sylpheed is quite nice. I don't use it myself because I don't want to be > dependent on an X app to read my mail (I use mutt), but my

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 14:28, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Evolution is a heavy application and has some quirks. but it is a very > good IMAP client in that it allows shortcuts to your frequently used > mailboxes and only asks you to select from mailboxes as opposed to all > files. I run an IMAP server

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 19:55, Bill Moseley wrote: > At 11:25 AM 02/24/02 -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > Although I read that IMAP can be slow if you have many mailboxes (I have > almost 100), and hundreds of messages a day. > > I have the same problem. The truth is that most mail cleints that

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Bill Moseley
At 11:25 AM 02/24/02 -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: >I believe nmh uses .mh_sequences or some such. So, that would probably >be the "standard" way. Sylpheed uses it's own sequence file, so it >won't even jibe with the mh way of managing mail. This is something >the Sylpheed folks should fix. I tr

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 01:00:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 10:05:13 -0800 Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: > > > > > Is there a debian package for Sylpheed? > > > > Yes, in Woody and Sid. > > > > > BTW -- why would using

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 10:05:13 -0800 Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: > > > Is there a debian package for Sylpheed? > > Yes, in Woody and Sid. > > > BTW -- why would using an X mail application exclude you from also > > running mutt? > > It's not so

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread csj
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:41:54 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:33:55AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > > > Sylpheed is quite nice. I don't use it myself because I don't want to be > > dependent on an X app to read my mail (I use mutt), but my wife switched > > to Sylphee

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Craig Dickson
begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: > Is there a debian package for Sylpheed? Yes, in Woody and Sid. > BTW -- why would using an X mail application exclude you from also > running mutt? It's not so much "prevented" as "made sufficiently painful". I tried using Sylpheed and mutt together severa

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread moseley
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:33:55AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Sylpheed is quite nice. I don't use it myself because I don't want to be > dependent on an X app to read my mail (I use mutt), but my wife switched > to Sylpheed after we decided that Outlook Express was too dangerous, and > she's

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Bill Moseley
At 08:46 AM 02/24/02 -0800, Wendell Cochran wrote: >> So, to start off with, I'm looking to make the transition to full-time >Linux easy by finding similar tools to I'm used to using. >[snip] > >Similarities can be confusing. Maybe -- maybe -- you'd do better >to accept differences, even seek them

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Michael P. Soulier quotation: > Sylpheed is excellent I'm told. Sylpheed is quite nice. I don't use it myself because I don't want to be dependent on an X app to read my mail (I use mutt), but my wife switched to Sylpheed after we decided that Outlook Express was too dangerous, and s

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Wendell Cochran
> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 21:38:37 -0800 > From: Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [snip] > . . . Like many, I'm coming from a Windows environment. I've got > three linux machines under my desk and for a year now I've booted Win98 > used basically only browsers and Eudora (3.0) on my Win9

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 23/02/02 Bill Moseley did speaketh: > My head is swimming a bit trying to limit my choices of mail clients to test. My personal preference is Mutt, but coming from browsers and Eudora, you might want to try something simpler to begin with. Evolution is not ready, IMHO. Even at

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 05:55, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > > > I was using RedHat 7.2 for a while and I actually liked the KDE setup, > > although a bit heavy weight. But I also like how light-weight of a setup I > > now have with Debian. (I suppose I'll need a desktop environment at some > > point

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread M.Alberto
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:38:37PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > And not related to email, anyone have a replacement suggestion (other than > Emacs ;) for my old basic friend on the windows side of Program File Editor > (pfe)? Don't waste time with emacs and vi. Try jed. It's the best console editor

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:38:37PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > I was using RedHat 7.2 for a while and I actually liked the KDE setup, > although a bit heavy weight. But I also like how light-weight of a setup I > now have with Debian. (I suppose I'll need a desktop environment at some > point.)

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:38:37PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > Evolution: No comment other than lots of eye candy and resource demands. Several like it. It and its brethren nautilus are just to resource intensive for my old hardware. > Mahogany: No idea. > Aethera: No idea.

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-23 Thread Timothy R. Butler
) a try. It feels much lighter in Debian than RedHat. The nice thing is you could stick to a very light weight KDE here - maybe just kdebase, konqueror, and konsole - or something like that. > So, for graphical mail clients: Knowing that I'm coming from a simple life > with Eudora (

Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-23 Thread Bill Moseley
My head is swimming a bit trying to limit my choices of mail clients to test. I'm wondering if someone can help narrow my choices. Background: Like many, I'm coming from a Windows environment. I've got three linux machines under my desk and for a year now I've booted Win98

Mail clients & Lock-in (was Re: What's a debian kid look like?)

2001-12-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 11:53:42AM +, Phillip Deackes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 24 Dec 2001 17:44:44 -0500 > > > Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > No, but when a business chooses degenerate mail and forces everyone to > > use it, I'd be pretty suspicious of high-level idioc

Re: configuring debian for network mail clients

2000-12-14 Thread presi
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: I now there is gnupop-3d. I used it and it worked quite good > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:22:29PM -0500, Dwight Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > > What is the name of the debian pop package? I do not see on

Re: configuring debian for network mail clients

2000-12-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:22:29PM -0500, Dwight Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > What is the name of the debian pop package? I do not see one in the list > of packages. I do not want imap. "apt-cache search pop" will give pages full of packages, you'll have a li

Re: configuring debian for network mail clients

2000-12-10 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your reply. > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 03:33:58PM -0500, Dwight Johnson wrote: > ... > > When she tries to read her mail using Eudora, she gets a message that > > her connection has been refused. When she tries to send mail, she gets > > a m

Re: configuring debian for network mail clients

2000-12-10 Thread cfelling
Hi Dwight, read this on debian-user, but there was a different mailing-list refered to in the To: header, so I'm cc-ing you/debian-user instead. On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 03:33:58PM -0500, Dwight Johnson wrote: ... > When she tries to read her mail using Eudora, she gets a message that > her connec

configuring debian for network mail clients

2000-12-10 Thread Dwight Johnson
I must configure my debian box so my wife can read and send her mail using Eudora from her Win95 box which is delivered to her mailbox (/var/mail/user) on the debian box using fetchmail/procmail/exim. Normal TCP/IP networking is already working on the network. The debian box is configured as an I

RE: mail clients

1999-05-26 Thread Christian Dysthe
Well, there is one email client that will do most of what Outlook Express does. XFmail. Not used alone though, but together with exim and fetchmail it works great for me. I have two accounts dealt with fine using XFmail. Using filters, and the option to set a custom "From" for every folder it is v

NDN(2): Re: mail clients

1999-05-25 Thread Post Office
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NDN: Re: mail clients

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Re: mail clients

1999-05-24 Thread Rob Browning
Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > See /usr/doc/exim/filter.txt.gz > It answered all of my questions. See also "info exim-filter". -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: mail clients

1999-05-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SP" == Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SP> Windows is designed for the causal user. That's great, SP> initially. There is no learning curve, Hahahahahahah. Sorry. I work parttime on phone support to pay for my studies. I can assure you, that a current Linux is no more complicated

Re: mail clients

1999-05-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JB" == Jim B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dispite some vocal mails from other users, I have a simple solution for you. JB> Someone sends to joe and the mail is filtered into his JB> mailbox... meanwhile, tom's mail is filtered into his mailbox. No problem. postilion does this without any pro

Re: mail clients

1999-05-23 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 02:25:47AM -0400, Sean wrote: > I've been wanting to set up fetchmail/exim/mutt but I've been having a > hell of a time figuring out the syntax for the .forward file. The docs > talk about using the .forward file, but nowhere is there an example of > what one should look li

Re: mail clients

1999-05-23 Thread Stephen Pitts
u believe that you can't work any other way. Don't yell, I'm > > not responsible for your problems. In the past, Linux users faced > > with a problem have programmed around it. Thus, we have a dozen > > different window managers and a dozen different mail clients. B

Re[2]: mail clients

1999-05-23 Thread Phillip Deackes
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't want to break up this lively discourse but has anyone here > tried > the IshMail Mail client? I am about to try it but want to know if > there > are homemade .debs around or if I will have to make them myself. Yes, I use it all the time. I posted h

Re: mail clients

1999-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 23 May 1999 05:06:47 -0400, Jan Muszynski wrote: >Have you tried running this under Wine? Yes, doesn't install, doesn't run. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343

Re: mail clients

1999-05-23 Thread Jan Muszynski
On 22 May 99, at 19:03, Steve Lamb wrote about Re: mail clients: [snipped to conserve bandwidth] > > A perfect example of this is PMMail98 on OS/2 & Windows. Yeah, I know, > Windows, GUI, ick. But my point is not the GUI, not the mouse, not the > keyboard, not

Re: mail clients

1999-05-23 Thread John Foster
I don't want to break up this lively discourse but has anyone here tried the IshMail Mail client? I am about to try it but want to know if there are homemade .debs around or if I will have to make them myself. -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Clean pipes (Was: mail clients)

1999-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 22 May 1999 23:16:10 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser wrote: >In this case, I don't think you know what you are talking about. CNC does Whoops, you're right. I misunderstood what a friend of mine was showing me. :) - -- Steve C. La

Re: mail clients

1999-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 23 May 1999 02:06:13 -0400, Allan M. Wind wrote: >2 is the better option, it doesn't look like mutt likes remote smtp >servers but I could be wrong (just skimmed the docs). There are other >MUA that does (communicator for instance). Now

Re: mail clients

1999-05-23 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-05-22 23:45, Stephen Pitts wrote: > Why not just have multiple instances of Communicator? That's trouble. To my understanding there is only one lock file for the .netscape directory which would render concurrent access either inoperable or a disaster. > Linux users faced with a problem

Re: Clean pipes (Was: mail clients)

1999-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 22 May 1999 22:23:24 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser wrote: >I think Concentric is in your area and their DSL will allow you to do >this. Concentric gets their DSL through another company which does not. Need at least the 4th tier up at abou

Clean pipes (Was: mail clients)

1999-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 22 May 1999 22:07:56 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser wrote: >Are you in the SF Bay area? (That Netcom comment led me to think so). >idiom.com will sell you a clean pipe and a block of IP addresses. They >were one of the few companies I found in the

Re: mail clients

1999-05-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-May-99 George Bonser wrote: > > xfmail handles multiple pop3 accounts at the same time. I just tried that > mahogany program ... caused me to loose about 2000 old messages ... gone, > evaporated, dead. > > It does not work well with any large mailboxes. I am using xfmail too. I tried Mah

Re: mail clients

1999-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 23 May 1999 00:09:23 -0400, Jim B wrote: >This is not about "what OS is for whom," "who is what kind of user," or >anything like that. The question is: "Does a client with these features >exist for the Linux platform?" No. >If one does

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