[aur-general] Web-client for emails: [WAS:Reflector]

2011-04-05 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
Re-subject - this is going OT.

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Peter Lewis  wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
>> I'll correct myself then, gmail+pentadactyl does not like the
>> combination of mailing lists I'm on. Some of them are badly configured
>> (thankfully none of the Arch ones) and have to be used with
>> reply-to-all, hence sometimes I press the wrong button, not
>> remembering which list I'm on.
>>
>> When I was using Evolution it was easy, Ctrl-L (reply-to-list) did
>> everything for me, but with web gmail there's no such button and I
>> have to remember whether to reply/reply-all depending on the list.
>> I'll try not to make the mistake again =).
>
> Umm... then don't use it, then, in favour of a client that works?
>
> Seriously though, I've never used GMail, but I see so many people on various
> lists apologising for the way it handles email. Just don't do it, kids.
>
> 
>
Gmail's web interface has THE best approach to threading. Ever. If you
have any other suggestion (web client or linux desktop client) which
comes anywhere close please let me know. Evolution's threading just
doesn't cut it, thunderbird's new one is close, but thunderbird is
basically a mouse-only interface, the keyboard shortcuts are so
horrific (and muttator is an abortion of a project AFAICS).

I've spent quite some time exploring the options, and settled on this.
Ideas always welcome, of course.


Re: [aur-general] Web-client for emails: [WAS:Reflector]

2011-04-05 Thread Baptiste
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 06:00:21PM +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
> Gmail's web interface has THE best approach to threading. Ever. If you
> have any other suggestion (web client or linux desktop client) which
> comes anywhere close please let me know. Evolution's threading just
> doesn't cut it, thunderbird's new one is close, but thunderbird is
> basically a mouse-only interface, the keyboard shortcuts are so
> horrific (and muttator is an abortion of a project AFAICS).

I've been using Claws-mail for some time, and I am quite happy of the
way it handles threads. I switched to mutt a few weeks ago, and I
found it to have a very nice way of handling ML (along with threading,
of course).
If you like keyboard shortcuts, well, Mutt is the best choice for you
anyway ;)

BTW, I've never used the gmail interface, so I can't really compare...

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Re: [aur-general] Web-client for emails: [WAS:Reflector]

2011-04-05 Thread Ray Rashif
On 5 April 2011 18:00, Oon-Ee Ng  wrote:
> Gmail's web interface has THE best approach to threading. Ever. If you
> have any other suggestion (web client or linux desktop client) which
> comes anywhere close please let me know. Evolution's threading just
> doesn't cut it, thunderbird's new one is close, but thunderbird is
> basically a mouse-only interface, the keyboard shortcuts are so
> horrific (and muttator is an abortion of a project AFAICS).
>
> I've spent quite some time exploring the options, and settled on this.
> Ideas always welcome, of course.

+1

Exactly why I haven't had an offline e-mail client for some time.
Except for mutt which I keep around for the rainy day.


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Re: [aur-general] Web-client for emails: [WAS:Reflector]

2011-04-05 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 05 Apr 2011 18:00 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
> Gmail's web interface has THE best approach to threading. Ever. If you
> have any other suggestion (web client or linux desktop client) which
> comes anywhere close please let me know. Evolution's threading just
> doesn't cut it, thunderbird's new one is close, but thunderbird is
> basically a mouse-only interface, the keyboard shortcuts are so
> horrific (and muttator is an abortion of a project AFAICS).
>
> I've spent quite some time exploring the options, and settled on this.
> Ideas always welcome, of course.

Sorry I don't know a desktop program, but sup (a console app) supposedly
emulates gmail.

http://sup.rubyforge.org/



Re: [aur-general] Web-client for emails: [WAS:Reflector]

2011-04-05 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tue, 05 Apr 2011, Loui Chang wrote:
> On Tue 05 Apr 2011 18:00 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
> > Gmail's web interface has THE best approach to threading. Ever. If you
> > have any other suggestion (web client or linux desktop client) which
> > comes anywhere close please let me know. Evolution's threading just
> > doesn't cut it, thunderbird's new one is close, but thunderbird is
> > basically a mouse-only interface, the keyboard shortcuts are so
> > horrific (and muttator is an abortion of a project AFAICS).
> >
> > I've spent quite some time exploring the options, and settled on this.
> > Ideas always welcome, of course.
> 
> Sorry I don't know a desktop program, but sup (a console app) supposedly
> emulates gmail.
> 
> http://sup.rubyforge.org/

Yeah, sup is still a little experimental but quite an awesome client. Also, for
version 2, they are planning on splitting out the client and server
functionality into two separate projects, which makes me salivate somewhat.

I use mutt these days, which handles threading quite well. I also really really
like KMail (I used it for around 10 years), but it's just got too slow and
resource intensive with all the nepomuk stuff.

Pete
(who just can't bare the idea of using a web browser to do his email.)