On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:14:56PM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote: | Thanks to all who posted constructive feedback regarding my question | about MUAs. Here's a synopsis of the suggestions, along with URLs for | the various products: | | KDE2.2/Kmailer -- http://www.kde.org/ | Screenshot: http://www.kde.org/screenshots/large/kde2b3_2.png | | Looks promising. However, as I mentioned in my previous message, I'm | brand-new to Linux so I'm going to stick with Gnome for now until I get | more comfortable with general system administration.
You can use Qt/KDE apps while using GNOME for the desktop -- you just need to install the proper libs (for example libqt and libkde). | GNUS -- http://www.gnus.org and http://my.gnus.org | Screenshot: http://my.gnus.org/screenshot.php?id=25 | | I believe this can run in a console (i.e. no X) which is definitely | appealing. yep. | Requires emacs, which I haven't learned yet (still working | on vi) so it may be a while before I give this one a shot. FYI mutt also runs in a console and allows you to pick your editor. You can use "gedit" if you want (a GNOME notepad-lookalike) or vim or emacs. | Someone else mentioned Balsa in passing. I used Balsa a couple of | months back and found the IMAP support to be rudimentary at best. I was | also annoyed at the number of different windows you had to open just to | open a single message. It's also designed (IIRC) purely as an email | client. Give it a few months to mature and I think it will be a solid | candidate for pure email. It is a great candidate for _pure_ email, except it doesn't have list support like mutt does (it also can't run without X). I seem to recall that I didn't like its behavior with IMAP, but I learned to setup fetchmail and that problem disappeared immediately (HINT: check out fetchmail :-)). Also I would view messages with a window like this : +-----------------+ | | | | |-------------| | | | | | | | | | +-----------------+ The left-hand column showed the folder list. The top box showed the message headers for the current folder and the lower box showed the message contents. I didn't have multiple windows. I think there is a config option for it. The other problem I had with it was I couldn't (easily) use vim as my editor. Has anyone mentioned Mahogany yet? You may want to look at it, http://mahogany.sourceforge.net. It even runs on windows too (BTW, gnus and mutt run on windows as well; mutt requires cygwin though, I think (that's how I'm using it anyways)). AFAIK mutt and gnus are the only mailers that do a good job of dealing with mailing lists (anyone have experience to the contrary?) with the Mail-Followup-To: header. They also have really good threading views (well, so I've heard about gnus, haven't tried it myself). Some people have mentioned that a few other MUAs have a threading view also. -D
