Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-21 Thread Alessio Fattorini
Il 18/01/2014 23:58, Rob Kampen ha scritto: > Question for the list: > What level of integration do you have for your contact list? > I need something that makes my workstation and laptop (both CentOS 6.5) > using Thunderbird and IMAP mail servers (mostly CentOS postfix/dovecot + > some gmail) and

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-21 Thread Alessio Fattorini
Il 18/01/2014 18:45, Les Mikesell ha scritto: >>> This is the realm for ClearOS, SME, or Nethserver which will have a >>> reasonable mail system working out of the box instead of the months it >>> will take someone to get the details right from scratch. But, no, it >>> isn't likely to match Goog

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-19 Thread Sorin Srbu
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Gary Greene > Sent: den 18 januari 2014 00:59 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences? > > That said, I've had more

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 01/18/2014 10:18 PM, Always Learning wrote: > We block all incoming emails from mail servers with host names > resembling home Internet connections and also when the HELO/EHLO doesn't > resolve to the host name. Consequently we don't get spam. > I effectively blocked most of spam also on my Pos

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > > I now have an Android phone after an iPhone. > I have always struggled with the Apple lock-in infrastructure - works real > well if you're using Apple's OS on the PC. That's not the case in the mail/contact/calendar realm. You can configure

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Rob Kampen
On 01/19/2014 02:00 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 05:10:34PM +1300, Rob Kampen wrote: On 01/18/2014 11:29 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:13 PM, wrote: We don't have enough arguments here I see that thunderbird's deprecated for RHEL 7, and they r

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Ned Slider wrote: > >> >>> In parts of the world Yahoo mail is technically defective. Just does not >>> work. >> >> Can you elaborate on that? Is it blocked or badly translated or >> what? > > Yahoo is blocked here. Totally fed up with the constant outflow of spa

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2014-01-18 at 20:51 +, Ned Slider wrote: > Yahoo is blocked here. Totally fed up with the constant outflow of spam > from Yahoo servers. Abuse reports are largely ignored or met with > disbelief that the spam could have possibly originated from their > servers. So yes, "technically

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Ned Slider
On 18/01/14 17:45, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Always Learning wrote: >> >>> And yahoo works equally well as a free mail service. >> >> In parts of the world Yahoo mail is technically defective. Just does not >> work. > > Can you elaborate on that? Is it blocked or ba

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: >> >> If you can't remember what you've sent, you can type >> From: me >> in the search box at the top and it will show what you've sent and >> also the threads where you have participated. That's a feature I use >> regularly because you can

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:01:40 -0500 Scott Robbins wrote: > I'm an old guy, who, though I have a smart phone, finds that > typing on it is too much of a pain to answer an email properly. Get a stylus. I have one and my wife made me a tiny belt-holder case to carry it around. It's the real thin

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:39:14AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > >> > > Not to mention the privacy concerns--I remember when I first got a smart > > phone, used my main gmail account for it, and suddenly saw that I had > > contacts for anyone

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Always Learning wrote: > >> And yahoo works equally well as a free mail service. > > In parts of the world Yahoo mail is technically defective. Just does not > work. Can you elaborate on that? Is it blocked or badly translated or what? I use an account there (

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2014-01-18 at 10:25 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > I used the internet before Google existed. Me too; in the good old days of Compuserve etc.; when AOL was in competition with the Internet and 'AOL' meant something rude 'A... on line'. > And yahoo works equally well as a free mail service

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: >> > Not to mention the privacy concerns--I remember when I first got a smart > phone, used my main gmail account for it, and suddenly saw that I had > contacts for anyone that I'd ever sent mail to in my contacts list. If I've sent something

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Always Learning wrote: > >> My daughter is just wrapping up her doctoral thesis and the university >> she attends uses gmail for their mail system. The changes over the last >> 12 months have caused her to miss incoming mail as gmail associates >> incoming mail wit

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Steve Clark
On 01/17/2014 05:59 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 01/17/2014 04:13 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> We don't have enough arguments here >> >> I see that thunderbird's deprecated for RHEL 7, and they recommend >> evolution. I've certainly had some annoyances in the last couple-three >> years with

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Nux!
On 18.01.2014 14:29, Ned Slider wrote: >> > > I used to do that when FF/TB in the distro were quite outdated, but > found the updating never worked for me, hence the convenience of > maintained RPM packages. This was quite a few years ago, possibly > around > the time v3 was in the distro. > >

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Ned Slider
On 18/01/14 13:54, Nux! wrote: > On 18.01.2014 13:19, Ned Slider wrote: >> On 17/01/14 22:59, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> On 01/17/2014 04:13 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: We don't have enough arguments here I see that thunderbird's deprecated for RHEL 7, and they recommend evol

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Nux!
On 18.01.2014 13:19, Ned Slider wrote: > On 17/01/14 22:59, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 01/17/2014 04:13 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> We don't have enough arguments here >>> >>> I see that thunderbird's deprecated for RHEL 7, and they recommend >>> evolution. I've certainly had some annoyan

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Ned Slider
On 17/01/14 22:59, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 01/17/2014 04:13 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> We don't have enough arguments here >> >> I see that thunderbird's deprecated for RHEL 7, and they recommend >> evolution. I've certainly had some annoyances in the last couple-three >> years with t-bi

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 05:10:34PM +1300, Rob Kampen wrote: > On 01/18/2014 11:29 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:13 PM, wrote: > >>We don't have enough arguments here > >> > >>I see that thunderbird's deprecated for RHEL 7, and they recommend > >>evolution. I've certa

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-18 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2014-01-18 at 17:10 +1300, Rob Kampen wrote: > My daughter is just wrapping up her doctoral thesis and the university > she attends uses gmail for their mail system. The changes over the last > 12 months have caused her to miss incoming mail as gmail associates > incoming mail with oth

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: >> >> Gmail's web interface is very low-maintenance... > > Have to take exception to this comment - the interface changes at the whim > of google and I have to relearn - recently the changes have come with > increasing frequency and major impact

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-17 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 01/17/2014 03:59 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > I will be using thunderbird from somewhere .. even if I have to build it > myself My suggestion is the Remi repo (http://rpms.famillecollet.com/):. He provides the latest Firefox and Thunderbird among some other useful stuff such php. I often have Fi

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-17 Thread Rob Kampen
On 01/18/2014 11:29 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:13 PM, wrote: We don't have enough arguments here I see that thunderbird's deprecated for RHEL 7, and they recommend evolution. I've certainly had some annoyances in the last couple-three years with t-bird. So, what ar

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-17 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 17:32 -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote: > My problem with Evolution is that it's not a mail tool, it's "a > personal information management application" (their words). I don't > want a calendar and I only barely want an address book; I do want > something that operates without a

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-17 Thread Mike McLean
I find gmail very useful for some things, but it always feel a little tainted by it. I really wish there was an open source webmail app that could come closer to matching it. On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:13 PM, wrote: > > We don't have enoug

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-17 Thread Bart Schaefer
My problem with Evolution is that it's not a mail tool, it's "a personal information management application" (their words). I don't want a calendar and I only barely want an address book; I do want something that operates without a server daemon (other than SMTP), against a local-disk-only mail st

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-17 Thread Gary Greene
On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:13 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > We don't have enough arguments here > > I see that thunderbird's deprecated for RHEL 7, and they recommend > evolution. I've certainly had some annoyances in the last couple-three > years with t-bird. So, what are people's preferred mail

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-17 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 01/17/2014 04:13 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > We don't have enough arguments here > > I see that thunderbird's deprecated for RHEL 7, and they recommend > evolution. I've certainly had some annoyances in the last couple-three > years with t-bird. So, what are people's preferred mail tools,

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-17 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 17:21 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: > sylpheed will do most things--or claws-mail, which, IIRC, is a fork of > sylpheed. I find Claws is better than Sylpheed. Claws uses the same data files as Sylpheed. -- Paul. England, EU. Our systems are exclusively Linux. No Mic

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-17 Thread Nux!
On 17.01.2014 22:13, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > We don't have enough arguments here > > I see that thunderbird's deprecated for RHEL 7, and they recommend > evolution. I've certainly had some annoyances in the last couple-three > years with t-bird. So, what are people's preferred mail tools, o

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:13 PM, wrote: > We don't have enough arguments here > > I see that thunderbird's deprecated for RHEL 7, and they recommend > evolution. I've certainly had some annoyances in the last couple-three > years with t-bird. So, what are people's preferred mail tools, other

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-17 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 17:13 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > So, what are people's preferred mail tools, other than > t-bird (or maybe mutt or pine )? Evolution 2.12.3 on C5. -- Paul. England, EU. Our systems are exclusively Linux. No Micro$oft Windoze here.

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-17 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 17:13:05 -0500 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I see that thunderbird's deprecated for RHEL 7, and they recommend > evolution. I've certainly had some annoyances in the last couple-three > years with t-bird. So, what are people's preferred mail tools, other than > t-bird (or maybe mu

Re: [CentOS] mail tools preferences?

2014-01-17 Thread Scott Robbins
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 05:13:05PM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > We don't have enough arguments here > > I see that thunderbird's deprecated for RHEL 7, and they recommend > evolution. I've certainly had some annoyances in the last couple-three > years with t-bird. So, what are people's pr