Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:33:16PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: [...] My recommendation is setting up an imap server and accessing your emails with whatever client comes to hand. Divorce the mbox/maildir storage choice from your client. I have several mbox mail folders with messages delivered by procmail. Many of them are for mailing list archiving on a per month base. Wouldn't these make it difficult to configure an imap server with access to all those mail folders? If not, do you recommend any imap server? Romildo -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:33:16PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: [...] My recommendation is setting up an imap server and accessing your emails with whatever client comes to hand. Divorce the mbox/maildir storage choice from your client. I have several mbox mail folders with messages delivered by procmail. Many of them are for mailing list archiving on a per month base. Wouldn't these make it difficult to configure an imap server with access to all those mail folders? No, your imap server will offer you to read any file or folder created by procmail; however you will have to subscribe to the new folders at the beginning of the month within your mail client. If not, do you recommend any imap server? Dovecot is my choice, courier-imap is also quite good but perhaps slower cheers, -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:33:16PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: [...] My recommendation is setting up an imap server and accessing your emails with whatever client comes to hand. Divorce the mbox/maildir storage choice from your client. I have several mbox mail folders with messages delivered by procmail. Why do you use mbox, if I may ask? base. Wouldn't these make it difficult to configure an imap server with access to all those mail folders? Not really. If not, do you recommend any imap server? dovecot Alexander Skwar -- Performance: A statement of the speed at which a computer system works. Or rather, might work under certain circumstances. Or was rumored to be working over in Jersey about a month ago. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:33:16PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: My recommendation is setting up an imap server and accessing your emails with whatever client comes to hand. Divorce the mbox/maildir storage choice from your client. If you don't want to use your ISP's IMAP services for whatever reason, I highly recommend net-mail/bincimap for a pretty simple IMAP server. HTH festus -- In all the millions of years dinosaurs roamed this planet, did any of them feel the need to invent, say, nuclear weapons? Mickeyz pgpelAkJpSaE6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:20:04PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I have several mbox mail folders with messages delivered by procmail. Why do you use mbox, if I may ask? I use mbox because it offers better search performance when the search is done in the body of messages: only one file (the mbox file) has to be read to perform the search. Such a search would be much less efficient on a mail folder where each message is stored in a separate file. And the primary reason I keep archives of mailing list messages is for easy search. Most mailing lists are archived on the internet, but searching them locally is much more flexible if done locally than on the web. Of corse I archive my private messages too. Furthermore mbox folders can be easily stored in compressed forms (using gzip, for instance) and good mail clients can read them that way. I also consider the number of files an advantage, as mail folders where each message is stored in its own file would create a very big number of files on my scenario with many messages being archived. Romildo -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?
On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 18:18:02 -0700, Grant wrote: Which mail client do you guys use? I'm looking for something lightweight. I use xfce4. sylpheed-claws -- Neil Bothwick I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 08:54:44AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 18:18:02 -0700, Grant wrote: Which mail client do you guys use? I'm looking for something lightweight. I use xfce4. sylpheed-claws Does sylpheed-claws work with mail folders in the mbox format? If so, can sylpheed-claws and mutt be used to read the same mbox mail format? I mean, when in text mode I want to use mutt. But in a graphical environment I would use sylpheed-claws. But I wouldn't use both at the same time. Can one see the marked as read messages from the other? If sylpheed-claws is not capable of doing this, is there any other lightweighted graphical email client that you would indicate? Regards, Romildo -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?
On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 06:07:19 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sylpheed-claws Does sylpheed-claws work with mail folders in the mbox format? Yes, there's an mbox plugin. emerge mail-client/sylpheed-claws-mailmbox to get claws installed with the plugin. I've not tried it myself. If so, can sylpheed-claws and mutt be used to read the same mbox mail format? I would expect so, but I'd recommend backing up your mbox file before testing. -- Neil Bothwick It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 08:54:44AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 18:18:02 -0700, Grant wrote: Which mail client do you guys use? I'm looking for something lightweight. I use xfce4. sylpheed-claws Does sylpheed-claws work with mail folders in the mbox format? If so, can sylpheed-claws and mutt be used to read the same mbox mail format? I mean, when in text mode I want to use mutt. But in a graphical environment I would use sylpheed-claws. But I wouldn't use both at the same time. Can one see the marked as read messages from the other? Should work, but I'd suggest to switch to Maildir format. There's no risk in accessing the same mail folder at the same time with numerous clients. Both mutt and sylpheed support Maildir. Alexander Skwar -- I smell a RANCID CORN DOG! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?
Which mail client do you guys use? I'm looking for something lightweight. I use xfce4. What's wrong with mutt? (You mentioned that you used it in another thread.) I was getting tired of mutt but I'm still not sure about switching. Have you come up with a mutt config file you like? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 07:36:45AM -0700, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: I was getting tired of mutt but I'm still not sure about switching. Have you come up with a mutt config file you like? I suppose... my entire .muttrc is only 125 lines long, and over half of those are aliases. I am not too particular about the UI, so all I did was customize color, some stuff about hiding headers, and setting the pager_index_lines to 5. HTML files are auto_view by dumping from lynx, mailcap catches pretty much all attachments except documents generated from Microsoft Office. The only things that took some time were figuring how to send mail encoded in Big5 without having it mungled, and playing with folder-hooks for threaded vs unthreaded display, as well as some customized attributions and signatures according to mailing-list. Every now and then, I would go back and browse through the Mutt manual to see if there's anything else I can use to make life simpler. W -- (aikamuotojen k?ytt? aikamatkustuksessa) You can arrive (mayan arivan on-when) for any sitting you like without prior (late fore-when) reservation because you can book retrospectively, as it were when you return to your own time. (you can have on-book haventa forewhen presooning returningwenta retrohome.) Sortir en Pantoufles: up 11 days, 3:09 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?
On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 14:40:48 +0200 Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 08:54:44AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 18:18:02 -0700, Grant wrote: Which mail client do you guys use? I'm looking for something lightweight. I use xfce4. sylpheed-claws Does sylpheed-claws work with mail folders in the mbox format? If so, can sylpheed-claws and mutt be used to read the same mbox mail format? I mean, when in text mode I want to use mutt. But in a graphical environment I would use sylpheed-claws. But I wouldn't use both at the same time. Can one see the marked as read messages from the other? Should work, but I'd suggest to switch to Maildir format. There's no risk in accessing the same mail folder at the same time with numerous clients. Both mutt and sylpheed support Maildir. Alexander Skwar My recommendation is setting up an imap server and accessing your emails with whatever client comes to hand. Divorce the mbox/maildir storage choice from your client. -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?
On 8/5/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which mail client do you guys use? I'm looking for something lightweight. I use xfce4. gmail ;- -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?
sylpheed On 8/5/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which mail client do you guys use? I'm looking for something lightweight. I use xfce4. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mail client recommendation?
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 06:18:02PM -0700, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: Which mail client do you guys use? I'm looking for something lightweight. I use xfce4. What's wrong with mutt? (You mentioned that you used it in another thread.) Best, W -- You seem less impressed than you should be. ~DeathMech, S. Sondhi. P-town PHY 205 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 10 days, 5:04 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
