Hey, all--
So many people on this list have mentioned neat features of
Sylpheed-Claws that I wanted to check it out.
My problem is that I'm currently using Thunderbird, and I want to share
my stored mail with Sylpheed-Claws. In the event Sylpheed-Claws doesn't
suit me, I certainly don't want my mail winding up split all over the
place (the new mail in the MH directory, and the old mail in the
directory Thunderbird points to --which is not in ~/.thunderbird, btw).
Now, I could always leave the mail on the POP3 server just for that, but
I also want to know how Sylpheed will act upon my current settings
(labels, filters, etc). And I just don't want to have to manage two mail
directories, even temporarily.
As I understand it, I could share the mail directory with the
sylpheed-claws-mailmbox plugin, but I can't get it to work under either
the GTK version (1.0.4) or the GTK2 version (1.9.9).
It's a twisted tale of installs, uninstalls and reinstalls (the bulk of
which I will spare you), but the upshot seems to be that under 1.0.4 no
plugin would load (even the builtins), giving me 'invalid ELF header'
errors, and under 1.9.9, the only mbox plugin is for 1.0.4 (GTK1, in
other words, but the builtin plugins load fine).
As much as I dislike GTK1 apps, I would drop back down to 1.0.4 (now
updated to 1.0.4a, I see in just the couple of hours I've been playing
with this; just my luck) if it would work, but I presently don't have
any such assurance. So here are my questions:
1. Is this even possible in the first place? What I want is to point
sylpheed to my current mail directory, which is the same one I've used
since before 1) I moved to Holland 5 years ago; 2) I switched from
Windows to Linux; 3) Thunderbird even existed (way back when, I was
using MozillaMail, and before that Netscape Mail). In other words, I've
ported this same mail directory and its contents across an ocean, from
ISP to ISP, and from OS to OS-- I really don't want to screw it up now
just because I changed mail clients. If I did, I'd be using Opera :-) or
(heaven help us) KMail. If I can't change back to my current mail client
without endangering my data (which, as you might guess, I somewhat
value) via 2 conversion operations (to Sylpheed-Claws and then back
again if I don't like it), then the deal is off already.
2. If this is possible, under which version of Sylpheed-Claws is it
possible? My guess is that the new GTK2 version is so new that the
plugin has not yet been updated to match-- but can I expect this to
occur in a reasonably timely fashion (in other words, is the speed of
Claws development fast, slow, or non-existent)? If I should drop back to
the GTK version, how can I do so so that the plugins will load when I
try to activate them? Uninstalling everything and then installing the
client and the plugins in the correct order did not seem to work, and I
really didn't feel like recompiling libelf for no reason. So if
someone can confirm that either an updated plugin is likely within a few
days, or that recompiling libelf would fix the GTK plugins, I'd wait
or give it a shot.
It really looks like a nice program (it did when I looked at it last
year, too), and I would regret not having the opportunity to check it
out more thoroughly, but I am admittedly (extremely) anal about my mail
(which is actually pretty funny, all things considered, but it's my
right to be as weird as I want about what I want to be weird about, and
I'm exercising it :-) ).
TIA for any help/advice,
Holly
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