Stupid question, but have you tried Evolution? I am a pine man myself, used it since 1994, but if I had to use a GUI tool, I would use Evolution.
-- Arthur H. Johnson II, Debian GNU/Linux Advocate Catechist, St John Catholic Church, Davison MI USA President, Genesee County Linux Users Group IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED],#debian YIM: arthurjohnson AIM: bytor4232 ICQ: 31770438 On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Alain Bosch wrote: > Michael, > > I fully understand what you mean, but i doubt that's where the problem comes > from. > > It's running very nicely with the following software > > Forte / Applix 5 / Opera / Mozilla > Agent under wine > Nethack ;) > Tomcat/Apache/Postgres > > Not every app at the same time, i do not want to shoot in my foots... > > I also patched the kernel to avoid swapping with Rick Van Riels patches (the > former VM) > > 84 processes: 83 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 0.2% user, 0.8% system, 0.0% nice, 99.0% idle > > Mem: 386124K total, 296320K used, 89804K free, 76888K buffers > Swap: 326080K total, 26224K used, 299856K free, 125256K cached > > SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > 29324 28M 11524 S 0.1 7.5 1:03 kmail > > And as you see it's not a memory nor a swap problem > > It's an all SCSI system except the burner and the DVD. > > /dev/sda2 1757080 1686812 70268 97% / > /dev/sda1 28124 1387 25285 6% /boot > /dev/sdb1 1066576 689736 376840 65% /home > > There's plenty of space left for the temporary files of the mail software > > The video card should be a well supported one Matrox G200 running in 16bits > depth at 1152x864. > > I decided to fully switch my desktop to Linux, servers are all linux in my > company. > > So imported a 3 years long email folders hierarchy with Eudora2mbx > (http://www.jjminer.org/eud2mbox/) with a full hierarchy of folders, > usually there are only 10 mails in the Inbox. Filters are cleaning up the > mess that comes from my 5 POP accounts.... > > 115 folders, 85MB of data > > Hardware... OK > Software... OK > Software usage ... OK > > I compacted the hierarchy... emptyed trash... > > So I suppose that there must be a problem with Kmail as a standalone app > without the KDE desktop or something else is making mess. AFAIK > > Do not know where, this is why i'm asking. > > I'd like something as easy as Eudora and avoid using Mutt or Pine. > > Sylpheed would have been fine.. but Kmail has some very good features > with paar to Eudora (Filters, HTML... ease of use) > > Thanks for your suggestions anyway. ;) > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
