Vibhu Rishi [Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:47:40PM +0530]:
> I have all my mails on the Windows partition, while I am now working
> under Linux . Whenever I need to send maisl , I need to boot into
> Windows, and then write my mails. This is really frustrating. Can anyone
> of you tell me how to over-come this problem ?
This is a rather regular problem ... so let me see what I've found out (but never
tried so far)
> on windows I have Outlook express as the mail client & on Linux I am
> forced to use Netscape -- can you tell me a better e-mail client &
> web-browser than Netscape ?
I think there are several mail clients (sylpheed, mulberry and adora come to
mind) which are cross-platform. There are apps which convert your OE folders
to standard unix MBOX format - search freshmeat .. (and btw, sylpheed uses MH
folders, but otherwise looks _exactly_ like outlook express interface-wise)
Mutt can be compiled on windows using the cygnus libraries at
http://www.cygwin.com and there's a win32 port of vim at http://www.vim.org :)
And, if you are masochistic (like Raju and a few other folks) there's always
VM/Gnus under emacs - you get both 'doze and unix versions of this. If you
switch to mutt or VM/Gnus, you dont need to switch back and forth between mail
clients at all :)
--suresh (hey, OK Raju, _dont_ wave that AK47 at me, it'll go ... _bang_)
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