Thanks -- I didn't know about sylpheed.  Clearly a good tool to know
about.  (I'll look at claws, as well.)

paul

jerry wrote:
 > On Sun, 17 Nov 2024 08:32:28 -0500, Paul Fox <[email protected]> 
 > wrote:
 > 
 > > jerry wrote:
 > >  > Over the years I've used many different graphical front-ends as the 
 > > world
 > >  > moved from terminals to xterms to *term (today).  Originally I used xmh,
 > >  > then exmh, and for the last 10+ yrs I've used Sylpheed.  Sylpheed isn't 
 > > an
 > >  > nmh only GUI, but it has support for it.  One of the key features is 
 > > that 
 > > 
 > > It supports the MH message store directly?
 > 
 > Yes.
 > 
 > It doesn't support use of the .mh_aliases file, so you have to re-enter
 > your email aliases.
 > 
 > I've configured to use /usr/local/bin/inc every 5min to pull things into 
 > my MH inbox. I can then use the GUI to view and send emails.  It does not
 > use /usr/local/bin/comp to send messages.  I don't know if you can configure
 > to do so.
 > 
 > Basically I send email locally, and my postfix configuration sends out 
 > through
 > my mail service at acm.org.
 > 
 > Some Linux distributions have something called 'claws' which is a fork of
 > Sylpheed original.
 > 
 > https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/
 > 
 > jerry
 > 
 > > 
 > > =----------------------
 > > paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 48.6 
 > > degrees)
 > > 
 > > 
 > 
 > 
 > -- 
 >      // Jerry Heyman               | "Human beings are born with different
 >     //  Amigan Forever :-)         |  capacities. If they are free, they are
 > \\ //   heymanj at acm dot org     |  not equal. And if they are equal, they 
 >  \X/                               |  they are not free" - A. Solzhenitsyn


=----------------------
paul fox, [email protected] (arlington, ma, where it's 59.0 degrees)


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