Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-30 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
I know you said you wanted a GUI email program, but you should really try mutt. It takes a few hours to learn, and you'll probably need to get some sort of fetchmail setup working (although I hear mutt can get POP3 mail on its own). I've tried a number of other email tools, both GUI and text

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-29 Thread Felix Natter
Christoph Groth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dominique Deleris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just discovered Emacs+Gnus, and it's TERRIFIC ! I've dropped evolution balsa. Emacs is so cool and powerful... Yeah, you're absolutely right! :-) the only drawback: it's very slow -- Felix

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-28 Thread Timmy Douglas
Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c'mon, now you KNOW you'll never go back and look at 6000 old messages. what gives? Maybe not directly, but you can index them and search them. I was doing this with freewais-sf before I switch to debian (just haven't

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-28 Thread Alan Shutko
Timmy Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i think a better solution would be: - use the debian web site to search them - tell procmail to put them in another directory mutt doesn't read and use grep to search the message files. Not really. The Debian website doesn't index all the mail I

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-27 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:05:53PM -0500, will trillich wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:59:41AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: -*-Mutt: =debian-user [Msgs:6445 New:39 Inc:2 22M]---(threads/date)--(92%)--- c'mon, now you KNOW you'll never go back and look at 6000 old messages. what

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-26 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:56:45PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: Since mutt is based on the file system, groups with lots of mail tend to overwhelm it--opening, closing, and sorting the boxes gets sluggish. Eh? -*-Mutt: =debian-user [Msgs:6445 New:39 Inc:2 22M]---(threads/date)--(92%)---

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-26 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:59:41AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: -*-Mutt: =debian-user [Msgs:6445 New:39 Inc:2 22M]---(threads/date)--(92%)--- c'mon, now you KNOW you'll never go back and look at 6000 old messages. what gives? -- The beauty of a pun is in the Oy! of the beholder. people

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-26 Thread Alan Shutko
will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c'mon, now you KNOW you'll never go back and look at 6000 old messages. what gives? Maybe not directly, but you can index them and search them. I was doing this with freewais-sf before I switch to debian (just haven't gotten around to rebuilding it).

Re: Gnus as email client (was: GUI Email program)

2001-04-25 Thread Glyn Millington
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Admittedly, Gnus has the learning curve from hell, but I don't know of many people to switch away from it after it's working. Yep - switched to Gnus, got homesick for Mutt so reverted to that and couldn't stand it! so am back with Gnus. If you

Re: Gnus as email client (was: GUI Email program)

2001-04-25 Thread Waldemar Brodkorb
Hello Jan, * Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to know what is it that you like so much about Emacs+Gnus? I used mutt for years. Now I change to gnus, because I want to use my newsgroups and my mailinglists in the same way. Without the

Re: Gnus as email client (was: GUI Email program)

2001-04-25 Thread Ilya Martynov
JS I would like to know what is it that you like so much about JS Emacs+Gnus? I am not trying to be sarcastic or something like that. JS I have tried to configure gnus a few times for using with email and JS found it a frustration to get working. In which ways would gnus be JS better than mutt

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-25 Thread Ross Boylan
I tried Balsa, but it crashed all the time. I took a look at evolution, but when the 2nd thing I tried to do (set up a weekly appointment that didn't start today) didn't work I decided it still needed some work. I use mutt, but I wouldn't call it a GUI client. I think it has scoring, though I

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-25 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, try sylpheed. It is simple and works! Em Wed, 25 Apr 2001 15:56:45 -0700, Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: I tried Balsa, but it crashed all the time. I took a look at evolution, but when the 2nd thing I tried to do (set up a weekly appointment that didn't start

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-25 Thread Michael A. Miller
Ross == Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I took a look at evolution, but when the 2nd thing I tried to do (set up a weekly appointment that didn't start today) didn't work I decided it still needed some work. Back in the 1900s, it was said that no application was

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-24 Thread Christoph Groth
Dominique Deleris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just discovered Emacs+Gnus, and it's TERRIFIC ! I've dropped evolution balsa. Emacs is so cool and powerful... Yeah, you're absolutely right! :-) Christoph

Gnus as email client (was: GUI Email program)

2001-04-24 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:26:27PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: I've just discovered Emacs+Gnus, and it's TERRIFIC ! I've dropped evolution balsa. Emacs is so cool and powerful... I would like to know what is it that you like so much about Emacs+Gnus? I am not trying to be sarcastic or

Re: Gnus as email client (was: GUI Email program)

2001-04-24 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to know what is it that you like so much about Emacs+Gnus? I used mutt for years. Now I change to gnus, because I want to use my newsgroups and my mailinglists in the same way. Without the usenet and without high-traffic mailinglists like

Re: Gnus as email client (was: GUI Email program)

2001-04-24 Thread Anthony Fox
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:26:27PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote: I've just discovered Emacs+Gnus, and it's TERRIFIC ! I've dropped evolution balsa. Emacs is so cool and powerful... I would like to know what is it that you like so much about

Re: Gnus as email client (was: GUI Email program)

2001-04-24 Thread Dominique Deleris
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to know what is it that you like so much about Emacs+Gnus? I am not trying to be sarcastic or something like that. I have tried to configure gnus a few times for using with email and found it a frustration to get working. Well, configuring

Re: Gnus as email client (was: GUI Email program)

2001-04-24 Thread Alan Shutko
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to know what is it that you like so much about Emacs+Gnus? Anything you want to do, you can add lisp to do it. And people often have done so already. (Reading slashdot and web boards, for instance.) Scoring is great... pine doesn't have

Re: Gnus as email client (was: GUI Email program)

2001-04-24 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:36:23PM +0200, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: I am using emacs all the day. With gnus + emacs I have nearly all my work in one app. It is a little bit more integrated. Yes, it is not easy to configure gnus, but it is also not easy to configure mutt. I found mutt

GUI Email program

2001-04-23 Thread Rob Zietlow
Hi there, I am looking for suggestions of a GUI email program (sorry i just like them better) Anyway...I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions? Netscape doesn't seem to be cutting it very well for me. I tried evolution, but I always ran into problems trying to compile the tarballs

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-23 Thread Preben Randhol
Rob Zietlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 23/04/2001 (12:22) : Hi there, I am looking for suggestions of a GUI email program (sorry i just like them better) Anyway...I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions? Evolution http://www.ximian.org/apps/evolution.php3 Mutthttp

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-23 Thread Hall Stevenson
Hi there, I am looking for suggestions of a GUI email program (sorry i just like them better) Anyway...I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions? You may like balsa. It's website is here: http://www.balsa.net/ I used it for a while, but went back to mutt. ;-) Hall

GUI Email program

2001-04-23 Thread Timothy J. Ford
Rob Zietlow writes: Hi there, I am looking for suggestions of a GUI email program (sorry i just like them better) Anyway...I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions? Netscape doesn't seem to be cutting it very well for me. vm it comes with the xemacs package -- Professor Timothy J

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-23 Thread judd
On 23 Apr, Hall Stevenson wrote: Hi there, I am looking for suggestions of a GUI email program (sorry i just like them better) Anyway...I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions? You may like balsa. It's website is here: http://www.balsa.net/ I used it for a while, but went back

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-23 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:12:10AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: Hi there, I am looking for suggestions of a GUI email program (sorry i just like them better) Anyway...I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions? Try sylpheed: http://sylpheed.good-day.net/. Deb packages for testing

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-23 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 05:06:26AM -0500, Rob Zietlow wrote: Hi there, I am looking for suggestions of a GUI email program (sorry i just like them better). That's what I thought, until I tried mutt. Rob -- Cold, adj.: When the politicians walk around with their hands in their own

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-23 Thread Dominique Deleris
I've just discovered Emacs+Gnus, and it's TERRIFIC ! I've dropped evolution balsa. Emacs is so cool and powerful... Dominique

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-23 Thread Peter Schüller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, I am looking for suggestions of a GUI email program (sorry i just like them better) Anyway...I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions? KMail? I've just switched to it. http://kmail.kde.org, or apt-get install kmail

Re: GUI Email program

2001-04-23 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
On Monday 23 April 2001 18:41, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:12:10AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: Hi there, I am looking for suggestions of a GUI email program (sorry i just like them better) Anyway...I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions? Try sylpheed