Collins Richey said:
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 20:20:33 -0600 (CST)
> Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a way to sort incoming mail (mail recvd from
>> fetchmail) easily.
< el snippo >
> Unless you have a need to forward mail for others, I would suggest that
> you forget about procmail/sendmail et al
Yep, if you have no more than a handful of users then don't worry about
procmail etc...
> and just emerge sylpheed.
> Sylpheed has filtering capability to store your mail in separate folders
> by a variety of criteria, and it works just fine. You need GTK+ and a
> few graphics packages. Do emerge -p sylpheed to see what is required.
Linux has a wealth of Mail User Agents (MUAs) that can do this sort of
thing now. Emerge them and see which one you like. Here's a list.
Mozilla Mail (part of Mozilla)
- can filter incoming messages
- integrated GnuPG support
- can also display nntp in the same client
Evolution
- full featured PIM similar to MS Outlook
- integrated GnuPG support
- search function and "Virtual" folders is excellent
- doesn't do nntp
- can work with Exchange servers with a plugin from ximian.com
Sylpheed (and Sylpheed-claws)
- Same sort of features as the other two
- integrated GnuPG support
- can also display nntp in the same client
- -claws is a fork of sorts that has extra features not in the
normal sylpheed
KMail
- Default KDE MUA
- similar features to all the others
- doesn't do nntp (use KNode)
Balsa
- Never used this one but I think it is Gnome/gtk based
For IMAP use I've found sylpheed to be rather unkind on my slow old IMAP
server, but that is just my experience.
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