In the message dated: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 21:36:04 +0100, The pithy ruminations from [email protected] on <[Nmh-workers] Hybrid approach> were: => The recent discussion on the previous thread brought me to a slightly => different train of thoughts: what if I use both Sylpheed/Claws Mail AND => nmh/mailutils? Not at the same time, of course. Originally, the email
I do that...at the same time. I use Claws Mail. That approach gives me decent handling of attachments & MIME content, address completion, and good threading. I use nmh pretty heavily for searching, filing, and all mail actions from a command-line. I've got Claws-Mail configured to call nmh's "repl", and -- to confuse things -- I've got "comp" aliased to call Claws-Mail if I'm under an X Windows session. => client that I had chosen was Claws Mail, but then I realized that by => using the MH tools I could do much more, so I changed my mind and => started thinking about using the MH tools (mnh or mailutils) directly, => because I would be able to do much more with them. => Now it is dawning upon me that I could use Claws Mail most of the time, => for my day-to-day needs, and nmh/mailutils for my special needs. => It would be a hybrid approach, in which the same messages/folders are => used by two different systems: Claws Mail and nmh/mailutils. => => Has anyone tried anything like this yet? Could I run into some => incompatibilities? Yes. Claws mail will corrupt the .mh_sequences file. Nmh operations that change the message order beyond just adding messages to a folder will slightly confuse Claws mail, but that's easy to deal with by rescanning the folder[s]. => => Above all, do you think that this approach makes sense? I think that anyone who can deal with a command-line mail client will be able to manage with a GUI mail handler, but it's up to you to decide whether the rough edges are too irritating. You might want to take a good look at exmh (and I should do that as well). I used exmh for several years, and it plays much better with nmh, but I finally gave up on it in order to get better MIME handling and threading, but those functions may have been improved since. Mark => => Thanks for the advice => => Otto => => _______________________________________________ => Nmh-workers mailing list => [email protected] => https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers => -- Mark Bergman Biker, Rock Climber, Unix mechanic, IATSE #1 Stagehand '94 Yamaha GTS1000A^2 [email protected] http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=bergman%40panix.com I want a newsgroup with a infinite S/N ratio! Now taking CFV on: rec.motorcycles.stagehands.pet-bird-owners.pinballers.unix-supporters 15+ So Far--Want to join? Check out: http://www.panix.com/~bergman _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
