On 21 Oct, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Would that mail client be Sylpheed? > > I looked into it and generally liked what I saw, but the fact that it uses > MH style message storage (one file per message!!) led me to decide I could > not switch to it. That's far to much storage overhead for me to tolerate > since I keep very large archives of the many mailing lists to which I > subscribe.
Actually, it's Postilion (http://www.postilion.org/), which is based on the Nextstep mail program (Mail.app). Problems with Postilion: 1) Nic Bernstein isn't actively developing it anymore - I think he may have decided that GNUMail would be a better long term area to devote his efforts. (GNUMail is based on GNUstep, and works. Big mailboxes require a lot of memory, though, currently.) 2) Postilion requires Tk/Tcl for the GUI, and a few other libraries, so it's not a complete piece of cake to compile and install. It can handle 100MB mail folders, though it starts getting very slow when the messages are in the 10 - 20 thousand range, IIRC. > If it's some other mail client, I'd like to hear about it, because I'm > looking to trade up from Eudora, but the only feature that it's missing > (apart from it's limited platform support) is message threading based on > message IDs (not merely subject headers). Everything else about it is > pretty good, especially it's searching and filtering capabilties Postilion allows mailboxes to be presented as sorted by date, in arrival order (mbox order), by subject, subject-by-date (which is *similar* to threading), by sender, reverse date, etc. It's also very extensible in editing messages being composed and operations on messages in mailboxes. I tried sylpheed maybe 6 months ago, but it didn't do enough (then). I think I have my hopes pinned on GNUMail, for the future. luke
