Re: Email client programs

2004-02-01 Thread Day Brown
Thorsten Haude wrote: Hi, * Day Brown wrote (2004-01-31 06:00): Well, now thatcha mention it, I am somewhat bemused by the loss of email functionality since I quit using QWKMAIL and the BBS nets, and went on the internet. I had similar thoughts. I used Crosspoint on Fido, and still

Re: Email client programs

2004-02-01 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Day Brown wrote (2004-01-31 18:50): Thorsten Haude wrote: * Day Brown wrote (2004-01-31 06:00): Well, now thatcha mention it, I am somewhat bemused by the loss of email functionality since I quit using QWKMAIL and the BBS nets, and went on the internet. I had similar thoughts. I used

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-31 Thread Day Brown
Well, now thatcha mention it, I am somewhat bemused by the loss of email functionality since I quit using QWKMAIL and the BBS nets, and went on the internet. The BBS posts were 8 bit. You had the entire 256 IBM CMOS bitmaps. The BBS posts offered ANSI color. It's not just mono like this. HTML

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-31 Thread Brett Carrington
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 09:00:00PM -0800, Day Brown wrote: Perhaps I have not expressed myself well, but the point is, that it is more difficult to use email now than it used to be; given the reputation of the computer business for 'progress', that's odd. So are you looking for a solution?

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-31 Thread Nate Duehr
On Friday, Jan 30, 2004, at 22:00 America/Denver, Day Brown wrote: I see where people in email now continually complain of being misquoted, how attribution with the system of single, double, triple,.. angle brackets is often misleading. But my QWKMAIL put my words up here in amber, and before

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-31 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Day Brown wrote (2004-01-31 06:00): Well, now thatcha mention it, I am somewhat bemused by the loss of email functionality since I quit using QWKMAIL and the BBS nets, and went on the internet. I had similar thoughts. I used Crosspoint on Fido, and still miss some features from both.

RE: Email client programs

2004-01-30 Thread Ben Yau
-Original Message- From: Ben Yau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Nate Duehr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Neither POP3 nor IMAP nor anything else will fix a problem at the network level. This seems obvious. Either the network works well, or it

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:59:15PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: | | hi ya curtis | | On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Curtis Vaughan wrote: | | But doesn't IMAP have more traffic involved than POP3? I mean each | time you connect, it has to check to see what's on the server and | what's on your computer.

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-30 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:27:42PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: [...] | It's not IMAP, alone, that provides this. It is the IMAP clients | (such as isync or Oops, I forgot to come back and fill this in after the apt-cache search in the other window finished. I meant to say such as isync

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-30 Thread John Hasler
Derrick writes: One possibility is uuMail. It is a commercial mail tool (and protocol) that does really high compression to minimize the bandwidth needed to transfer messages. A proprietary version of UUCP. Why not use the real thing? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill

RE: Email client programs

2004-01-29 Thread Soumyadip Modak
Hi, On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Ben Yau wrote: True, but you can do your best to workaround the network issue. In this case, a mail client that would actually do something akin to retr 1 del 1 retr 2 del 2 retr 3 del 3 Instead of retrieving all messages _and then_ deleting

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-28 Thread Curtis Vaughan
hi ya curtis On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Curtis Vaughan wrote: But doesn't IMAP have more traffic involved than POP3? I mean each time you connect, it has to check to see what's on the server and what's on your computer. What would be best is a solution that just w/ imap ... NOTHING is on your pc

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya curtis On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Curtis Vaughan wrote: I know this is not a windows list and I have never yet asked a question like this on here before, but perhaps there is someone who knows the answer to this question. Because our vessels have to get mail over lines that are rather

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-28 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Curtis Vaughan wrote (2004-01-28 06:44): I know this is not a windows list and I have never yet asked a question like this on here before, but perhaps there is someone who knows the answer to this question. How about asking Microsoft support about it? Thorsten -- Jede Glorifizierung

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya curtis On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Curtis Vaughan wrote: But doesn't IMAP have more traffic involved than POP3? I mean each time you connect, it has to check to see what's on the server and what's on your computer. What would be best is a solution that just w/ imap ... NOTHING is on

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:44:47PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: Because our vessels have to get mail over lines that are rather shaky, we would like them to pull mail in a way whereby once they've received a message it is considered downloaded.

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-28 Thread Erich Waelde
Hello Curtis, I don't think everyone is fully appreciating the problem. That makes 2 of us ;) What comes to my mind: a. (has been mentioned) use fetchmail to download the messages. Example listing here: # fetchmail -d0 -a -f /etc/fetchmailrc 4 messages for myname at

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-28 Thread Nate Duehr
Curtis Vaughan wrote: I know this is not a windows list and I have never yet asked a question like this on here before, but perhaps there is someone who knows the answer to this question. Netscape and Mozilla support offline modes where a user can sync themselves to the server and then be

RE: Email client programs

2004-01-28 Thread Ben Yau
-Original Message- From: Nate Duehr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 8:00 AM To: Curtis Vaughan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Email client programs Neither POP3 nor IMAP nor anything else will fix a problem at the network level. This seems

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Erich Waelde: I don't think everyone is fully appreciating the problem. That makes 2 of us ;) What comes to my mind: a. (has been mentioned) use fetchmail to download the messages. Example listing here: # fetchmail -d0 -a -f /etc/fetchmailrc 4 messages for

RE: Email client programs

2004-01-28 Thread Ben Yau
-Original Message- From: Alvin Oga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 10:50 AM To: Ben Yau Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Email client programs On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Ben Yau wrote: True, but you can do your best to workaround the network issue

RE: Email client programs

2004-01-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Ben Yau wrote: True, but you can do your best to workaround the network issue. In this case, a mail client that would actually do something akin to retr 1 del 1 retr 2 del 2 retr 3 del 3 Instead of retrieving all messages _and then_ deleting which is what

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-28 Thread Mike M
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:44:47PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: I know this is not a windows list and I have never yet asked a question like this on here before, but perhaps there is someone who knows the answer to this question. Because our vessels have to get mail over lines that are

Email client programs

2004-01-27 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I know this is not a windows list and I have never yet asked a question like this on here before, but perhaps there is someone who knows the answer to this question. Because our vessels have to get mail over lines that are rather shaky, we would like them to pull mail in a way whereby once

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-27 Thread Curtis Vaughan
But doesn't IMAP have more traffic involved than POP3? I mean each time you connect, it has to check to see what's on the server and what's on your computer. What would be best is a solution that just says, I don't care what you have or don't have, here are some new messages. Take them.

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-27 Thread David Purton
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:16:20PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: But doesn't IMAP have more traffic involved than POP3? I mean each time you connect, it has to check to see what's on the server and what's on your computer. What would be best is a solution that just says, I don't care what

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-28 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 09:11:48AM -0600, Drew Raines wrote: You can with mutt. Set pager_index_lines to a number greater than 0. Nice feature. How does one switch between the panes? -- Sridhar M.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't look now, but there is a

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-28 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 28 Dec 2001 01:40:09PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. insinuated: On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 09:11:48AM -0600, Drew Raines wrote: You can with mutt. Set pager_index_lines to a number greater than 0. Nice feature. How does one switch between the panes? not sure what you mean by panes ...

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-27 Thread Erik Steffl
Craig Dickson wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: Also, with fetchmail, you don't have to bother telling your mail client about your POP or IMAP server -- it's one less thing to configure if you provided that you want to download emails from IMAP which is not a very good way to use IMAP.

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-27 Thread Erik Steffl
Craig Dickson wrote: ... If good IMAP support was common in mail clients, I'd probably be more inclined to explore it, but in my experience many clients either don't support IMAP, or the support is limited and/or buggy. it's getting better, IMO it's a lot simler than file storage support

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-27 Thread Drew Raines
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: the problem with text based MUAs is that you cannot see folders/index/message at the same time... (AFAIK, haven't found it in mutt or pine) You can with mutt. Set pager_index_lines to a number greater than 0. -- Drew

Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Vaughan, Curtis
that it works very well. I dont think we have ever had any problems with it. We have Exchange server problems, but no client problems. Therefore, clients will be expecting the same quality no problems. I have tried out a number of email client programs, but am not satisfied by any one of them. I have

Email client programs (w/o html formatting - sorry)

2001-12-26 Thread Vaughan, Curtis
that it works very well. I don't think we have ever had any problems with it. We have Exchange server problems, but no client problems. Therefore, clients will be expecting the same quality - no problems. I have tried out a number of email client programs, but am not satisfied by any one of them. I have

Re: Email client programs (w/o html formatting - sorry)

2001-12-26 Thread Lev Lvovsky
on freshmeat for rdesktop). That way all the software that you haven't foudn replacements for runs on the terminal server. I have tried out a number of email client programs, but am not satisfied by any one of them. I have tried out, KMail, Evolution, Netscape and Mozilla, oh and the email client

RE: Email client programs (w/o html formatting - sorry)

2001-12-26 Thread Vaughan, Curtis
One of the reasons is monetary. Why pay MS for what is already out there, and works just as well? The other reason is example. We know of another company that is totally Linux-based and has no problems. They can work not just at work, but also from home or from any computer anywhere through a

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Brian Nelson
. It's another attempt by MS to force you to exclusively use their products since their software won't work with other products. Nice of them, isn't it? I have tried out a number of email client programs, but am not satisfied by any one of them. I have tried out, KMail, Evolution, Netscape

RE: Email client programs (w/o html formatting - sorry)

2001-12-26 Thread Lev Lvovsky
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Vaughan, Curtis wrote: One of the reasons is monetary. Why pay MS for what is already out there, and works just as well? The other reason is example. We know of another company that is totally Linux-based and has no problems. They can work not just at work, but also

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Erik Steffl
imo it's very useful to have the eamil deliverystorage separate from email clients. from this point of view the ideal situation is to use IMAP, server side filtering (like sieve with cyrus) and let them use any clients they want... not sure how to get there from exchange, does exchange

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Lev Lvovsky
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: imo it's very useful to have the eamil deliverystorage separate from email clients. from this point of view the ideal situation is to use IMAP, server side filtering (like sieve with cyrus) and let them use any clients they want... from a

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Brian Nelson
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: imo it's very useful to have the eamil deliverystorage separate from email clients. from this point of view the ideal situation is to use IMAP, server side filtering (like sieve with cyrus) and let them use any clients they want... not sure

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Erik Steffl
Brian Nelson wrote: ... Sylpheed is supposed to be a nice GUI mailer, though I haven't tried it. Evolution is supposedly out of beta, though I wouldn't be surprised if it crashed a lot, as you mentioned. KMail has weak IMAP support. Mozilla Mail is still too buggy, as is Balsa. Netscape

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Erik Steffl
Lev Lvovsky wrote: On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Erik Steffl wrote: imo it's very useful to have the eamil deliverystorage separate from email clients. from this point of view the ideal situation is to use IMAP, server side filtering (like sieve with cyrus) and let them use any clients

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Craig Dickson
stable that I am aware of. Of course, I don't know a hell of a lot yet. [...] I have tried out a number of email client programs, but am not satisfied by any one of them. I have tried out, KMail, Evolution, Netscape and Mozilla, oh and the email client program with StarOffice. Each one has

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Craig Dickson
Brian Nelson wrote: ... but I don't think I could get our users to go over to a non-GUI program. Why is that? Because they've bought into the marketing pitch that pretty graphics == better software? That's bullshit. There's no good reason any user couldn't become more proficient with

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Lev Lvovsky
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Craig Dickson wrote: Brian Nelson wrote: ... but I don't think I could get our users to go over to a non-GUI program. Why is that? Because they've bought into the marketing pitch that pretty graphics == better software? That's bullshit. There's no good

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread David Z Maze
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ES what's this netscpae 4.x bashing I see repeatedly? IMO it's a fairly ES good email client, stable (well, as stable as browser and it's really ES only stable when you disable java), has the main MUA features... Issues with netscape mail at MIT: -- It has

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Erik Steffl
David Z Maze wrote: Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ES what's this netscpae 4.x bashing I see repeatedly? IMO it's a fairly ES good email client, stable (well, as stable as browser and it's really ES only stable when you disable java), has the main MUA features... Issues with

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Craig Dickson
Erik Steffl wrote: IMO the MUA should not handle storage of email, so this is a non an issue:-) [the real causality goes in the other way] Well, the MUA should not have to worry about retrieval from POP servers. That's fetchmail's job. But certainly the MUA is the thing for interactively

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Lev Lvovsky
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Craig Dickson wrote: Well, the MUA should not have to worry about retrieval from POP servers. That's fetchmail's job. But certainly the MUA is the thing for interactively moving mails from one folder to another. why the insistence on fetchmail? -lev

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Craig Dickson wrote: the problem with text based MUAs is that you cannot see folders/index/message at the same time... (AFAIK, haven't found it in mutt or pine) Right, AFAIK you can't do that in mutt. On the other hand, I don't find that essential. GKrellM shows me

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Lev Lvovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.12.27.0144 +0100]: Well, the MUA should not have to worry about retrieval from POP servers. That's fetchmail's job. But certainly the MUA is the thing for interactively moving mails from one folder to another. why the insistence on

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Craig Dickson
Lev Lvovsky wrote: why the insistence on fetchmail? Without fetchmail or something like it, if your network is down when you decide to run your mail client, you can't check your mail server for new messages. Even if the network is up, you have to wait while the client connects to the server and

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Erik Steffl
Craig Dickson wrote: Erik Steffl wrote: IMO the MUA should not handle storage of email, so this is a non an issue:-) [the real causality goes in the other way] Well, the MUA should not have to worry about retrieval from POP servers. That's fetchmail's job. But certainly the MUA is

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Lev Lvovsky
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, martin f krafft wrote: why the insistence on fetchmail? it's the unix philosophy -- let one program do its job and do it well, let other programs use that... hehe, really? I guess you can count mozilla out ;) while I like the concept of modularity, I can't imagine

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Erik Steffl
Craig Dickson wrote: Lev Lvovsky wrote: why the insistence on fetchmail? ... Also, with fetchmail, you don't have to bother telling your mail client about your POP or IMAP server -- it's one less thing to configure if you provided that you want to download emails from IMAP which is not

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Lev Lvovsky
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Craig Dickson wrote: Lev Lvovsky wrote: why the insistence on fetchmail? Without fetchmail or something like it, if your network is down when you decide to run your mail client, you can't check your mail server for new messages. Even if the network is up, you have to

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Craig Dickson
Erik Steffl wrote: mail retrieval is indeed separate issue (and it can be both job of fetchamil (active retrieval) and MTA (accepting delivery)) then there's mail storage - IMO the task for IMAP server only then the MUA comes in - in between user and IMAP, the actual email

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Craig Dickson
Erik Steffl wrote: Also, with fetchmail, you don't have to bother telling your mail client about your POP or IMAP server -- it's one less thing to configure if you provided that you want to download emails from IMAP which is not a very good way to use IMAP. I guess it's desirable in

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 05:36:15PM -0800, Lev Lvovsky wrote: | On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, martin f krafft wrote: | | why the insistence on fetchmail? | | it's the unix philosophy -- let one program do its job and do it well, | let other programs use that... | | hehe, really? I guess you can

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:46:44AM -0800, Vaughan, Curtis wrote: | I am wondering what other Debian Users recommend for an email client | program. I like mutt the best. It is good, makes good use of screen real-estate, has good threading and list support, and is light, fast, and stable. The one

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 05:32:31PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: Craig Dickson wrote: ... I guess, I still like to see it all at once... I guess I can open few windows, each with it's own view:-) BTW the other annoying thing is that it requires password to IMAP everytime I start it - is

Re: Email client programs

2001-12-26 Thread Erik Steffl
Carel Fellinger wrote: On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 05:32:31PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: Craig Dickson wrote: ... I guess, I still like to see it all at once... I guess I can open few windows, each with it's own view:-) BTW the other annoying thing is that it requires password to IMAP