Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Walter Hafner

Nate Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  Nate: it's a while since I looked at VM on XEmacs.  I found its
  layout cluttered and it's key sequences awkward.  How configurable
  is it, really?  Do you use it as it comes out of the box?
 
 Really configurable, and no, I don't use it in an out-of-the-box
 configuration.
 
 I remap many of the keybindings, as well as have it setup to deal with
 procmail filtered email, which works very well.

I can only second Nate:

I use procmail to filter all incoming mail in seperate folders
(mailinglists, admin-mails, ...), use SpamBouncer (procmail script;
http://www-new.hrweb.org/spambouncer/) to filter out spam and Emacs/VM
to read my mails. Together, these tools do a _very_ good job in
organizing my mails. This approach at least halved the time I need to
wade through mails every day.

Regarding configurability: If SpamBouncer doesn't get all spam, a simple
"Z" in VM will mail all postmasters/abuse-accounts on the mailpath,
informing them about abuse. You can do this and essentially every other
task by using the provided 'hooks'. Ok, it takes a bit of lisp
programming ...

Another benefit of this approach is, that I can process mails further,
without leaving Emacs. Say, if someone mailed me sourcecode, I can edit
it, compile, run and delete it - all in Emacs. :-)

But then, I'm an Emacs addict (typing this in GNUS, the Emacs
newsreader). :-)

-Walter [knowing that he's starting a holy war!]

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Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Marc van Kempen

 
 Hi Nate,
 
 Somewhere , theres got to be a nice little email place where Unix people can talk 
about
 usability and ease of software. 

Just to toss in my 0.02 cents, I've been using exmh for a while and 
am on one hand very satisfied with it, on the other hand it's handling
of mime and html is not good, so I'd be very interested in discussing
this topic too.

I have looked at (and disliked in one way or another) xfmail, tkrat, kmail,
balsa, netscape mail, M (Mahogany), Empath (looks promising, unfortunately
vapourware at this time), Postillion (nextstep clone of tkrat), 
"Ultimate mail tool"

I have only briefly looked at the various emacs mail options.


 
-- 

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fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl






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Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Markus Stumpf

On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:08:01PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
 Lots of folk use procmail, but since I'm using qmail as an MTA,
 I thought I'd see if I could use it's native methods, and it's
 really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER
 block.

It's even "easier" :-)
I subscribe new mailing lists (and resubscribed old ones) as
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
So I have e.g.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
For each of those addresses I create
   .qmail-listname
files that sort it in different mailboxes:

.qmail-freebsd-hackers:
./Maildir/lists/freebsd/hackers/

.qmail-freebsd-net:
./Maildir/lists/freebsd/net/

.qmail-freebsd-scsi:
./Maildir/lists/freebsd/scsi/

  3. thread topic support
 The best threading mail reader that I've come across is mutt,
 but that might be too traditional for your option 1.

I think mutt works really great with qmail. With the above I have in my
.muttrc

mailboxes /home/maex/Maildir/incoming   \
/home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/hackers\
/home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/net\
/home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/scsi   \
/home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/stable

# freebsd-scsi 
folder-hook lists/freebsd/scsi \
'my_hdr From: "Markus Stumpf" [EMAIL PROTECTED]'
save-hook ~hmaex-lists-freebsd-scsi =lists-archives/freebsd/scsi

I have switched from ELM to mutt and qmail and with the above setup I
have noticed that the time I need for reading my emails dramatically
decreased.

I have also a .qmail-default file which controls all addresses like
[EMAIL PROTECTED] that do not have explicit controls files. If I HAVE
to use an email address somewhere out in the web e.g., I use addresses
like  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I ever get spam via those addresses I can identify where they got the
address from and block/bounce/discard it via an appropriate control
file.

\Maex

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Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Nate Williams

 Just to toss in my 0.02 cents, I've been using exmh for a while and 
 am on one hand very satisfied with it, on the other hand it's handling
 of mime and html is not good, so I'd be very interested in discussing
 this topic too.

VM doesn't do HTML/MIME very well, although I understand in later
versions of XEmacs they've incorporated some packages that handle things
better.  (I'm still using XEmacs 19.16, from the dark ages...)

Mime handling works, but is clumsy, and HTML is almost non-existent.



Nate


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Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Bruce A. Mah

If memory serves me right, Marc van Kempen wrote:
  
  Hi Nate,
  
  Somewhere , theres got to be a nice little email place where Unix people ca
 n talk about
  usability and ease of software. 
 
 Just to toss in my 0.02 cents, I've been using exmh for a while and 
 am on one hand very satisfied with it, on the other hand it's handling
 of mime and html is not good, so I'd be very interested in discussing
 this topic too.

I weigh in with the exmh crowd.  We've been hoping to cut a 2.1.0
release Real Soon Now for most of the (Northern Hemisphere) summer, I
think we'll get there Real Soon Now.  2.1.0 will have better PGP and GPG
support, among other things.  I fear it may be starting to suffer from
feeping creaturitis.

I've actually been pretty happy with the way that exmh deals with MIME
and HTML, so I'd be interested to hear what you think needs improvement
(maybe by private email if you don't want to clog the list any more than
it is already).

(For the record, the other mailers I've used before exmh were 
/usr/bin/mail and VM.)

Bruce.





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Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Andrew Reilly

On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 01:21:09PM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote:
 On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:08:01PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
  really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER
 
 It's even "easier" :-)
 I subscribe new mailing lists (and resubscribed old ones) as
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Well, that's arguably the way qmail wants it to be, but not helpful
if you want your mailing list traffic to come through the one
ISP-provided pop account.  (Costs less that way, with my current
ISP.)

-- 
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Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Dan Nelson

In the last episode (Sep 10), Andrew Reilly said:
 On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 01:21:09PM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote:
  On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:08:01PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
   really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER
  
  It's even "easier" :-)
  I subscribe new mailing lists (and resubscribed old ones) as
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 Well, that's arguably the way qmail wants it to be, but not helpful
 if you want your mailing list traffic to come through the one
 ISP-provided pop account.  (Costs less that way, with my current
 ISP.)

If your ISP runs sendmail (possibly other MTAs), you can use the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] syntax.  All mail is sent to the "user" mailbox,
but filters like procmail see the "detail" portion too, and can filter
on it.

-- 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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RE: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Gennady Sorokopud
Hi!
On 09-Sep-99 Andrew Reilly wrote:
 XFMail isn't acceptable, because I've got 130M of mbox mail
 boxes in a deep directory hierarchy, and I'd like to keep them
 that way.  The last time I looked at XFMail it insisted on an
 un-nested mh-directory style of mailbox.  Is it still the case?
Nope (at least in version 1.3). Also support of regular unix mailboxes is less 
efficient
than that of mh. Unfortunately (due to the lack of time mostly) i had to stop 
working on
XFMail. Hope to get back to it someday.

Best regards.

 Gennady B. Sorokopud - System programmer at NetVision Israel.
 E-Mail: Gennady Sorokopud g...@netvision.net.il
 PGP public key is available through PGP keyserver.

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Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Walter Hafner
Nate Williams n...@mt.sri.com writes:

  Nate: it's a while since I looked at VM on XEmacs.  I found its
  layout cluttered and it's key sequences awkward.  How configurable
  is it, really?  Do you use it as it comes out of the box?
 
 Really configurable, and no, I don't use it in an out-of-the-box
 configuration.
 
 I remap many of the keybindings, as well as have it setup to deal with
 procmail filtered email, which works very well.

I can only second Nate:

I use procmail to filter all incoming mail in seperate folders
(mailinglists, admin-mails, ...), use SpamBouncer (procmail script;
http://www-new.hrweb.org/spambouncer/) to filter out spam and Emacs/VM
to read my mails. Together, these tools do a _very_ good job in
organizing my mails. This approach at least halved the time I need to
wade through mails every day.

Regarding configurability: If SpamBouncer doesn't get all spam, a simple
Z in VM will mail all postmasters/abuse-accounts on the mailpath,
informing them about abuse. You can do this and essentially every other
task by using the provided 'hooks'. Ok, it takes a bit of lisp
programming ...

Another benefit of this approach is, that I can process mails further,
without leaving Emacs. Say, if someone mailed me sourcecode, I can edit
it, compile, run and delete it - all in Emacs. :-)

But then, I'm an Emacs addict (typing this in GNUS, the Emacs
newsreader). :-)

-Walter [knowing that he's starting a holy war!]

-- 
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WWW-Beauftragter, TU Muenchen   Email: haf...@in.tum.de
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Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Marc van Kempen
 
 Hi Nate,
 
 Somewhere , theres got to be a nice little email place where Unix people can 
 talk about
 usability and ease of software. 

Just to toss in my 0.02 cents, I've been using exmh for a while and 
am on one hand very satisfied with it, on the other hand it's handling
of mime and html is not good, so I'd be very interested in discussing
this topic too.

I have looked at (and disliked in one way or another) xfmail, tkrat, kmail,
balsa, netscape mail, M (Mahogany), Empath (looks promising, unfortunately
vapourware at this time), Postillion (nextstep clone of tkrat), 
Ultimate mail tool

I have only briefly looked at the various emacs mail options.


 
-- 

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Email: m...@bowtie.nlWWW  Databases
tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 
fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl






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Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Markus Stumpf
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:08:01PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
 Lots of folk use procmail, but since I'm using qmail as an MTA,
 I thought I'd see if I could use it's native methods, and it's
 really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER
 block.

It's even easier :-)
I subscribe new mailing lists (and resubscribed old ones) as
maex-listn...@space.net
So I have e.g.
maex-freebsd-hack...@space.net
maex-freebsd-...@space.net
maex-freebsd-s...@space.net
For each of those addresses I create
   .qmail-listname
files that sort it in different mailboxes:

.qmail-freebsd-hackers:
./Maildir/lists/freebsd/hackers/

.qmail-freebsd-net:
./Maildir/lists/freebsd/net/

.qmail-freebsd-scsi:
./Maildir/lists/freebsd/scsi/

  3. thread topic support
 The best threading mail reader that I've come across is mutt,
 but that might be too traditional for your option 1.

I think mutt works really great with qmail. With the above I have in my
.muttrc

mailboxes /home/maex/Maildir/incoming   \
/home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/hackers\
/home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/net\
/home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/scsi   \
/home/maex/Maildir/lists/freebsd/stable

# freebsd-scsi 
folder-hook lists/freebsd/scsi \
'my_hdr From: Markus Stumpf maex-lists-freebsd-s...@space.net'
save-hook ~hmaex-lists-freebsd-scsi =lists-archives/freebsd/scsi

I have switched from ELM to mutt and qmail and with the above setup I
have noticed that the time I need for reading my emails dramatically
decreased.

I have also a .qmail-default file which controls all addresses like
maex-anyth...@space.net that do not have explicit controls files. If I HAVE
to use an email address somewhere out in the web e.g., I use addresses
like  maex-net-access-...@space.net
If I ever get spam via those addresses I can identify where they got the
address from and block/bounce/discard it via an appropriate control
file.

\Maex

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Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Harold Gutch
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 01:21:09PM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote:
 On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:08:01PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
  Lots of folk use procmail, but since I'm using qmail as an MTA,
  I thought I'd see if I could use it's native methods, and it's
  really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER
  block.
 
 It's even easier :-)
[cut long explanations]

My .procmailrc-entry:

:0:
* ^Sender:.owner-freebsd-\/[...@]+@FreeBSD.ORG
{
  LISTNAME=${MATCH}
  :0
  * LISTNAME??^\/[...@]+
  FreeBSD-lists/${MATCH}
}

My .muttrc-entry:

mailboxes `echo $HOME/Mail/FreeBSD-lists/*`

(at least that's the part for the FreeBSD lists, that line in my
.muttrc of course contains my other mailfolders as well).

Yours has the great advantage of being able to see from where
your email-address got leaked to a spammer etc., mine doesn't do
that :).

bye,
  Harold

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Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Nate Williams
 Just to toss in my 0.02 cents, I've been using exmh for a while and 
 am on one hand very satisfied with it, on the other hand it's handling
 of mime and html is not good, so I'd be very interested in discussing
 this topic too.

VM doesn't do HTML/MIME very well, although I understand in later
versions of XEmacs they've incorporated some packages that handle things
better.  (I'm still using XEmacs 19.16, from the dark ages...)

Mime handling works, but is clumsy, and HTML is almost non-existent.



Nate


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Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Marc van Kempen wrote:
  
  Hi Nate,
  
  Somewhere , theres got to be a nice little email place where Unix people ca
 n talk about
  usability and ease of software. 
 
 Just to toss in my 0.02 cents, I've been using exmh for a while and 
 am on one hand very satisfied with it, on the other hand it's handling
 of mime and html is not good, so I'd be very interested in discussing
 this topic too.

I weigh in with the exmh crowd.  We've been hoping to cut a 2.1.0
release Real Soon Now for most of the (Northern Hemisphere) summer, I
think we'll get there Real Soon Now.  2.1.0 will have better PGP and GPG
support, among other things.  I fear it may be starting to suffer from
feeping creaturitis.

I've actually been pretty happy with the way that exmh deals with MIME
and HTML, so I'd be interested to hear what you think needs improvement
(maybe by private email if you don't want to clog the list any more than
it is already).

(For the record, the other mailers I've used before exmh were 
/usr/bin/mail and VM.)

Bruce.






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Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 01:21:09PM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote:
 On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:08:01PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
  really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER
 
 It's even easier :-)
 I subscribe new mailing lists (and resubscribed old ones) as
 maex-listn...@space.net

Well, that's arguably the way qmail wants it to be, but not helpful
if you want your mailing list traffic to come through the one
ISP-provided pop account.  (Costs less that way, with my current
ISP.)

-- 
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Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 10), Andrew Reilly said:
 On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 01:21:09PM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote:
  On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:08:01PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote:
   really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER
  
  It's even easier :-)
  I subscribe new mailing lists (and resubscribed old ones) as
  maex-listn...@space.net
 
 Well, that's arguably the way qmail wants it to be, but not helpful
 if you want your mailing list traffic to come through the one
 ISP-provided pop account.  (Costs less that way, with my current
 ISP.)

If your ISP runs sendmail (possibly other MTAs), you can use the
user+det...@host.com syntax.  All mail is sent to the user mailbox,
but filters like procmail see the detail portion too, and can filter
on it.

-- 
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dnel...@emsphone.com


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X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-08 Thread Andrew Reilly

On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 05:43:17PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote:
  3. Needlessly cross-posted (watch your cc lines, loser! :).
 
 On a different topic, does anyone know of a good  X mailer
 (currently I am using exmh) :

There aren't any.  :-)  (depends on your value of "good")

 1. user friendly
 2. filtering capability

I've decided that threading isn't the mailer's job.  I don't want
to have to wade through a mailbox full of lists when I'm connecting
from off site, and have shut down my on-site mailer.

Lots of folk use procmail, but since I'm using qmail as an MTA,
I thought I'd see if I could use it's native methods, and it's
really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER
block.

 3. thread topic support

The best threading mail reader that I've come across is mutt,
but that might be too traditional for your option 1.

If you find a pretty, lightweight X-based MUA that does a good job
with threads (and MIME, and PGP), I'd like to know about it too.

XFMail isn't acceptable, because I've got 130M of mbox mail
boxes in a deep directory hierarchy, and I'd like to keep them
that way.  The last time I looked at XFMail it insisted on an
un-nested mh-directory style of mailbox.  Is it still the case?

Nate: it's a while since I looked at VM on XEmacs.  I found its
layout cluttered and it's key sequences awkward.  How configurable
is it, really?  Do you use it as it comes out of the box?

-- 
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Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-08 Thread Nate Williams

 Nate: it's a while since I looked at VM on XEmacs.  I found its
 layout cluttered and it's key sequences awkward.  How configurable
 is it, really?  Do you use it as it comes out of the box?

Really configurable, and no, I don't use it in an out-of-the-box
configuration.

I remap many of the keybindings, as well as have it setup to deal with
procmail filtered email, which works very well.

For more information, talk to me offline.



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Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-08 Thread Amancio Hasty


Hi Nate,

Somewhere , theres got to be a nice little email place where Unix people can talk about
usability and ease of software. 

Have Fun Guys

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RE: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-08 Thread Gennady Sorokopud

Hi!
On 09-Sep-99 Andrew Reilly wrote:
 XFMail isn't acceptable, because I've got 130M of mbox mail
 boxes in a deep directory hierarchy, and I'd like to keep them
 that way.  The last time I looked at XFMail it insisted on an
 un-nested mh-directory style of mailbox.  Is it still the case?
Nope (at least in version 1.3). Also support of regular unix mailboxes is less 
efficient
than that of mh. Unfortunately (due to the lack of time mostly) i had to stop working 
on
XFMail. Hope to get back to it someday.

Best regards.

 Gennady B. Sorokopud - System programmer at NetVision Israel.
 E-Mail: Gennady Sorokopud [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 PGP public key is available through PGP keyserver.

 This message was sent at 09-Sep-99 08:49:56 by XFMail


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X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-08 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 05:43:17PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote:
  3. Needlessly cross-posted (watch your cc lines, loser! :).
 
 On a different topic, does anyone know of a good  X mailer
 (currently I am using exmh) :

There aren't any.  :-)  (depends on your value of good)

 1. user friendly
 2. filtering capability

I've decided that threading isn't the mailer's job.  I don't want
to have to wade through a mailbox full of lists when I'm connecting
from off site, and have shut down my on-site mailer.

Lots of folk use procmail, but since I'm using qmail as an MTA,
I thought I'd see if I could use it's native methods, and it's
really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER
block.

 3. thread topic support

The best threading mail reader that I've come across is mutt,
but that might be too traditional for your option 1.

If you find a pretty, lightweight X-based MUA that does a good job
with threads (and MIME, and PGP), I'd like to know about it too.

XFMail isn't acceptable, because I've got 130M of mbox mail
boxes in a deep directory hierarchy, and I'd like to keep them
that way.  The last time I looked at XFMail it insisted on an
un-nested mh-directory style of mailbox.  Is it still the case?

Nate: it's a while since I looked at VM on XEmacs.  I found its
layout cluttered and it's key sequences awkward.  How configurable
is it, really?  Do you use it as it comes out of the box?

-- 
Andrew


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Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-08 Thread Nate Williams
 Nate: it's a while since I looked at VM on XEmacs.  I found its
 layout cluttered and it's key sequences awkward.  How configurable
 is it, really?  Do you use it as it comes out of the box?

Really configurable, and no, I don't use it in an out-of-the-box
configuration.

I remap many of the keybindings, as well as have it setup to deal with
procmail filtered email, which works very well.

For more information, talk to me offline.



Nate


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Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

1999-09-08 Thread Amancio Hasty

Hi Nate,

Somewhere , theres got to be a nice little email place where Unix people can 
talk about
usability and ease of software. 

Have Fun Guys

-- 

 Amancio Hasty
 ha...@rah.star-gate.com




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