Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-04 Thread Thaths
On 8/3/07, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 07:00 -0700, Thaths wrote: *cough*gmail*cough*? is gmail an MUA? i thought it was only webmail. what do you do on an airplane, or elsewhere you need a local copy of your mailbox? It _is_ an MUA. It is an MUA that

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Venky
1. Kiran is right - Eudora is screwing up display of some posts, such as Divya's post [1] that started this exchange. It seems that Eudora is not recognising line breaks in some posts properly. Any ideas why? Lack of UTF-8 support? Divya's posts have newlines encoded as =0A. Venky (the

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:00:53AM -0700, Thaths wrote: On 8/3/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. I've been meaning to move away from Eudora for ages - but haven't found a MUA to replace it for me. *cough*gmail*cough*? If you keep all of your

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: Thunderbird sucks at various levels. :) How many? Which are these?

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Thaths
On 8/3/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. I've been meaning to move away from Eudora for ages - but haven't found a MUA to replace it for me. *cough*gmail*cough*? Thaths -- Homer: He has all the money in the world, but there's one thing he can't buy. Marge: What's that? Homer:

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Venky [03/08/07 19:39 +0530]: 1. Kiran is right - Eudora is screwing up display of some posts, such as Divya's post [1] that started this exchange. It seems that Eudora is not recognising line breaks in some posts properly. Any ideas why? Lack of UTF-8 support? Divya's posts have newlines

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Udhay Shankar N wrote: 3. I've been meaning to move away from Eudora for ages - but haven't found a MUA to replace it for me. Thunderbird comes close, but the Tried Evolution?

[silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: [ on 06:51 PM 8/2/2007 ] on another note, you should stop using the new UI for Yahoo mail. See what a mess it's made of your post? Her post came through fine for me. Maybe it's time to give Eudora its golden handshake? OK, this sequence of messages inspired me to

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Venkat Mangudi wrote: [ on 10:17 PM 8/3/2007 ] 3. I've been meaning to move away from Eudora for ages - but haven't found a MUA to replace it for me. Thunderbird comes close, but the Tried Evolution? Yes, and mutt, which somebody else suggested. Currently, I'm running Windows on my home

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Thaths wrote: [ on 07:30 PM 8/3/2007 ] 3. I've been meaning to move away from Eudora for ages - but haven't found a MUA to replace it for me. *cough*gmail*cough*? Doesn't work for me. I already use gmail as a backup mailstore (which will last until my paranoia outweighs the convenience

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:01:23PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Tried Evolution? All GUI MUAs suck. It's canonical. mutt's the one MUA that sucks least, and that's not just a motto. Running mutt server-side and having the following .bashrc function mutt () { if ps x | grep [m]utt;

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:07:15PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Thaths wrote: [ on 07:30 PM 8/3/2007 ] 3. I've been meaning to move away from Eudora for ages - but haven't found a MUA to replace it for me. *cough*gmail*cough*? Doesn't work for me. I already use gmail as a backup

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-08-03 19:39:09 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lack of UTF-8 support? Divya's posts have newlines encoded as =0A. =0A is the quoted-printable encoding of an ASCII line feed, and it has nothing to do with UTF-8 (beyond all ASCII codepoints being valid under UTF-8). Divya's message header

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 23:01 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Tried Evolution? Yes, and mutt, which somebody else suggested. Currently, I'm running Windows on my home machine, so neither is an ideal solution. as a longtime eudora user, the fact that linux had a good outlook clone (evolution)

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 3 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are many ways to minimize desktop suckage, Ubuntu 7.04 with nVidia hardware acceleration, rdesktop, VMWare server (free as in beer) You can replace VMWare with qemu + kqemu (-kernel-kqemu, ftw). As easy to configure as VMWare (minus the