Re: Mail front end
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Hi. Does anyone know of a good front end for email? I do not like elm, mutt or XEmacs. I am looking for something like MS Exchange with folder and such. You mean something like Outlook? I'm afraid that no such program exists under Linux. Yet. In the meantime, there are a couple of fairly easy-to-use programs available under X11: * KMail, which is part of KDE * Netscape Communicator -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
Re: Mail front end
In lists.linux.debian.user, you wrote: I am looking for something like MS Exchange with folder and such. You could try xfmail, for example -- IIRC it supports folders. Remco
Re: Mail front end
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999 17:07:28 +0100 Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In lists.linux.debian.user, you wrote: I am looking for something like MS Exchange with folder and such. You could try xfmail, for example -- IIRC it supports folders. Most if not all MUA (Mail User Agens) support folders. Examples enclude: exmh (wot I use), balsa, tkrat, mutt, elm, mutt, arrow, NetscapeMail and many others. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: Mail front end
On 27 Nov 1999 18:16:47 +0100 Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has this already been ported to a better (and freer) toolkit than xforms, like GTK+ (or at least Qt)? XFMail is tightly married to XForms. I would not expect this to change. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
Re: Mail front end
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27 Nov 1999 18:16:47 +0100 Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has this already been ported to a better (and freer) toolkit than xforms, like GTK+ (or at least Qt)? XFMail is tightly married to XForms. I would not expect this to change. Darned ugly too. Enough to make you yearn for Windows!! The mail client I use is the excellent (IMHO) Ishmail. Ishmail (www.ishmail.com) was a commercial email app and is now free. The source code is available too. I had hoped someone would compile it with glibc 2.1 and debianise it a bit, but my pleas on the net and on this list have remained unanswered. Iahmail is highly polished and is more like what you might expect from a commercial Windows app. I have tried other clients, but keep on using Ishmail. -- Phillip Deackes Debian Linux (Potato)
Re: Mail front end
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:12:34 + (GMT) Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: XFMail is tightly married to XForms. I would not expect this to change. Darned ugly too. Enough to make you yearn for Windows!! shrug This is a common disagreement for me. I just don't care what the thing looks like as long as it does what I need and consumes minimal screen real estate. Consuming minimal screen real estate is critical and is what flunks out most tools -- espcially those things which insist on having toolbars or putting bloody icons about the place (I never ever want to see an icon on my desktop. Period.). XFMail fails both those criteria by handling MIME obtusely (eg it doesn't display message/rfc822 inline, or handle multipart/mixed digests worth a damn), and consumes great gobs of screen real estate. The mail client I use is the excellent (IMHO) Ishmail. exmh here. Its not cute, or is at least no more cute than Tk in general (and of course there are several widget hacks for Tk), but is endlessly extensible -- which is another primary requirement for me. -- J C Lawrence Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --(*) Other: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
