Re: GUI Mail Client
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 11:56 pm, Rus Foster wrote: Can anyone recommend a mail client which can take my existing pine config and folders? One that takes the whole config will be hard. Several will take the folders, including kmail and mutt. (but mutt isn't GUI.) I use kmail and mutt sort of interchangeably. I use kmail at home, and mutt away from home when the gui is too slow. Since they use the same format, I can go back and forth between them. I used to do this with pine, but for me mutt has replaced pine. One thing I like about kmail (compared to other GUI mail programs) is that it does only mail. One bug in kmail is that it uses index files. If there isn't one, it will create it. If you change a mail file (mbox format) with another program, only a little, sometimes it won't discover that the index doesn't match and will give a messed up display. The solution is to remove the index file. Sylpheed uses a different storage format. I couldn't figure out how to go back and forth between it and a text program like mutt. That means you will have the same problem moving from pine. I don't like evolution for the same reason I don't like Outlook. A mail program should do only mail. It would be SO nice if they would all use the same storage format. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI Mail Client
al davis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sylpheed uses a different storage format. I couldn't figure out how to go back and forth between it and a text program like mutt. That means you will have the same problem moving from pine. Sylpheed uses MH style mailboxes, or at least something that works with things that read MH boxes. If you put a .mh_sequences file (blank, so 'touch .mh_sequences') file in a mail folder, mutt will read it. -Jason -- Jason Wojciechowski http://wonka.hampshire.edu/~jason pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: GUI Mail Client
Rus == Rus Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rus Hi, Can anyone recommend a mail client which can take my Rus existing pine config and folders? I think Sylphhed will do the trick. It is certainly the best GUI email client I have used under Linux, but this is holy-wars area you are entering! Keith. -- ___ _ Keith O'Connell. -o) Maidstone, Kent. (UK) /\\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI Mail Client
* Keith O'Connell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030226 02:07]: client I have used under Linux, but this is holy-wars area you are entering! That much is true! I'm sure I'm not the only one who, on reading GUI Mail Client is just _itching_ to respond with 'xterm -e mutt!' no matter what the question ;-) good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously. --Benjamin Franklin signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: GUI Mail Client
Vineet == Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: client I have used under Linux, but this is holy-wars area you are entering! Vineet That much is true! I'm sure I'm not the only one who, on Vineet reading GUI Mail Client is just _itching_ to respond Vineet with 'xterm -e mutt!' no matter what the question ;-) When I posted my reply, I fought back the urge to say I was using gnus, because I didn't think he wanted to hear that!:-) Keith -- ___ _ Keith O'Connell. -o) Maidstone, Kent. (UK) /\\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GUI Mail Client
Hi, Can anyone recommend a mail client which can take my existing pine config and folders? Cheers Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More bits for your bite Email - Web Space - Custom Solutions - Shell Accounts -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
