Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Lussier
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes: Evolution supports IMAP, POP and local mail. It also supports multiple identities. pll Which is important for those of us who have these! fred Shhh, no we don't, you're not supposed to give away our secrets pll oh be quiet, it's not like they don't

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-13 Thread Brian Chabot
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes: Evolution supports IMAP, POP and local mail. It also supports multiple identities. I somehow missed the beginning of this thread but... Thunderbird also supports multiple identities, IMAP, and POP as well as GMail natively. Enigmail makes PGP/GPG

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-13 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 2009-01-11 1:02 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: * What do people like better (or best)? If you're going to run Thunderbird, I think the occasional stability issues of the current beta are worth it for the increased usability. Kudos to the Penelope (nee Eudora) engineer who's hacking madly though

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Lussier
So, Is it possible to use an external editor with Tbird? Is something like It's All Text for Firefox also available for thunderbird ? I couldn't find it on the Thunderbird page. I want to click on reply and have the text sent to emacs via emacsclient Thanks, -- Seeya, Paul

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-13 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Enigmail makes PGP/GPG encryption simple (including key management). Evolution allows PGP/GPG signing and encryption, as well as S/MIME signing and encryption for outgoing email. Incoming email just works. I haven't used Evolution in a while, but last time I did, I was turned off by the close

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-13 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 2009-01-13 3:44 PM, Paul Lussier wrote: d? Is something like It's All Text for Firefox also available for thunderbird ? I couldn't find it on the Thunderbird page. This might work (untested): http://globs.org/articles.php?lng=enpg=2 -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner Work:

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-13 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: Well, I must admit I still like the old exmh mailer, but more and more Evolution works for me. I guess if I did not use software just because it has a close resemblance to software generated by the Evil Empire then I

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-13 Thread Bruce Dawson
I quit using Evolution and switched to Thunderbird when Evolution took more than 28 hours to rifle though my (more than) 1024 .mbox files. Thunderbird did it within 1 minute - and I got to watch as is progressed through them. I don't know why Evolution was taking so long; they were both going

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-13 Thread Alex Hewitt
Bruce Dawson wrote: I quit using Evolution and switched to Thunderbird when Evolution took more than 28 hours to rifle though my (more than) 1024 .mbox files. Thunderbird did it within 1 minute - and I got to watch as is progressed through them. I don't know why Evolution was taking so long;

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-13 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
I must admit I never used Evolution with IMAP. While I appreciate the benefits of IMAP, I mostly read email from my laptop, and therefore have my email with me almost everywhere I go. I do know that recent versions of Evolution now keep their data through SQLite. Whether that would be faster or

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-13 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
I threw Evolution under the bus when for some odd reason it started filtering most of my incoming email messages sticking them into it's junk folder. You can easily turn off the filtering completely. At about the same time Evolution seemed to lose track of messages it had already downloaded

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-13 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 2009-01-13 5:36 PM, Alex Hewitt wrote: I threw Evolution under the bus when for some odd reason it started filtering most of my incoming email messages sticking them into it's junk folder. FWIW, I have the same problem with Thunderbird, so I do all my spam filtering server-side

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-13 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org wrote: What I don't like about it is that it does not use the directories of email messages, each message being in a different file like exmh does, so I can not go grepping through my email. Doesn't grep -r work? I know I've

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-13 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
FWIW, I have the same problem with Thunderbird, so I do all my spam filtering server-side (MailScanner). Most frustrating about this is that even though there's a way to tell it to trust server-side headers, there's not way to turn off the local

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-13 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Doesn't grep -r work? I know I've used it to grep though my hierarchical collection of many mbox files in the past. Evolution keeps its mail in something that looks somewhat like an mbox file, but it is mixed in with cache files, etc. Let's just say it is not as easy to grep through it as it

Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-11 Thread Steven W. Orr
I've been a pine user for almost forever and now we're in The Age of Alpine. But the proliferation of html and other attachments is wearing me down and I'm starting to wonder if the grass is greener if I switch to something else that's not text based. I installed t'bird, but when I did it

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-11 Thread Ben Scott
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: But the proliferation of html and other attachments is wearing me down ... I've been using Gmail for years, long enough that I've fogotten most of my Pine skills, but... Pine could render HTML in text mode last I used

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-11 Thread Mark Komarinski
Let me start by saying I used mutt for a number of years, but have been using tbird almost exclusively for quite a while. I have a colleague who's using exmh and fetchmail if that's your cup of tea :). Ben Scott wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote:

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-11 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Evolution supports IMAP, POP and local mail. It also supports multiple identities. md -- Jon maddog Hall Executive Director Linux International(R) email: mad...@li.org 80 Amherst St. Voice: +1.603.672.4557 Amherst, N.H. 03031-3032 U.S.A. WWW: http://www.li.org Board

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-11 Thread Mark Komarinski
Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: Evolution supports IMAP, POP and local mail. It also supports multiple identities. I stand corrected. Thanks. :) -Mark ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-11 Thread Alan Johnson
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: But the proliferation of html and other attachments is wearing me down ... I've been using Gmail for years, long enough that I've fogotten most