Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also, I should add one extremely annoying and frustrating problem I
> have recently had in xemacs21-gtk/Gnus:
>
> I can select data in another X window, and paste into a Gnus
> message. That is good, normal, defacto X behaviour.
>
> However, if somebody sen
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> The main limitations of Gnus for me, I guess are: won't
Brian> check SSL server key, and won't cache IMAP data (unless you
Brian> manually tell it to, but then it won't delete the messages
Brian> when they are erased fro
> "Eric" == Eric E Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Eric> Not sure what you want here. You can set it up with a
Eric> backend that uses a standard unix mbox format to keep the
Eric> mail, which then you could feed to mailsync or something...
I seem to remember (from a while ago)
> "Joseph" == Joseph Dane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joseph> one way you might be able to accomplish this is to use
Joseph> 'levels'. you can set a mail (or news) group at a certain
Joseph> level, and when you check for new mail gnus will only
Joseph> fetch for groups at or b
Lo, on , July 13, John S. J. Anderson did write:
> > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:31:23 -0500 (CDT), Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]> said:
>
> Richard> I'm a fan of VM, because I'm used to the Emacs keybindings,
> Richard> and it's the only MUA I've found which lets you edit messages
> R
Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote:
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> I'm personally using a combination of fetchmail-ssl, procmail, and kmail.
> Handles everything I need it to, and a lot more!
>
> > - Must be able to handle multiple IMAP-based accounts. (not necessarily
> > on
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> However, Gnus seems to perform badly (IMHO) when accessing
Brian> remote mail:
Brian> - on startup, it tries to check for mail on every folder. This
Brian> is slow and time consuming (I only have a shared 28.8kbps
Brian> Internet
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I'm personally using a combination of fetchmail-ssl, procmail, and kmail.
Handles everything I need it to, and a lot more!
> - Must be able to handle multiple IMAP-based accounts. (not necessarily
> on the same server)
fetchmail. Check out the we
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> - Gnus doesn't support storing mail (on local computer as
Brian> opposed to IMAP) in any shared location. Instead, it will pull
Brian> all mail out of the Maildir or mbox file, and insert it into
Brian> its own private spool. This makes
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:31:23 -0500 (CDT), Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
Richard> I'm a fan of VM, because I'm used to the Emacs keybindings,
Richard> and it's the only MUA I've found which lets you edit messages
Richard> that you receive in-place.
FWIW, Gnus does that too.
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:13:37AM +0200, Paul Huygen wrote:
> You *could* do that, because VMware is a sophisticated program that
> seems to work very well. However, to continuously run an application
> like Outlook, Vmware seems not very suitable. VMware shares the
> processor cycles evenly betw
Kurt Lieber wrote:
>
> OK, I've read with great amusement all the chest-thumping going on about
> MUAs, MTAs and how Microsoft email products are things that you scrape
> off the bottom of your shoe.
>
> I, for one, am brand-spanking new at Linux and have yet to find a Linux
> MUA that meets my n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You could also run vmware (http://www.vmware.com) on your machine, and just
> run outlook on top of that.
You *could* do that, because VMware is a sophisticated program that
seems to work very well. However, to continuously run an application
like Outlook, Vmware seems
> "Charles" == Charles Sebold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> Except for calendaring - Emacs + Gnus + BBDB +
Charles> gnus-pers.el to enable one to switch "accounts" easily
Charles> while composing posts/emails. Emacs has calendaring but
Charles> currently can't share mee
%% Kurt Lieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
kl> OK, I've read with great amusement all the chest-thumping going on
kl> about MUAs, MTAs and how Microsoft email products are things that
kl> you scrape off the bottom of your shoe.
...
kl> If there isn't, then I hope the person who stated
Lo, on Thursday, July 12, Kurt Lieber did write:
> I'm wedded to the way Outlook displays information. With one look at
> the main Outlook screen, I can tell how many unread messages I have in
> each account, the content of the first unread message in my primary
> account (via the preview pane) a
Brendon Leese wrote:
If you wish to use GNU/Linux nonetheless then perhap you could use wine
(www.winehq.com). "Wine is animplementation of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs
on top of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer". Simply
mount your old Windows partition containing O
On Thursday 12 July 2001 17:28, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> OK, I've read with great amusement all the chest-thumping going on
> about MUAs, MTAs and how Microsoft email products are things that you
> scrape off the bottom of your shoe.
I'm tempted to drop the from the sentence ;-)
> I, for
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On Thursday 12 July 2001 19:35, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Kurt Lieber wrote:
> > OK, I've read with great amus
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:35:42PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote:
| Why on earth would you want a single application to do all of that? Do
This was my reaction also. Just for the record I used to be a
full-time windows user, before I was introduced to Unix and Linux. I
have tried a lot of differe
On 21 Tammuz 5761, Eric E. Moore wrote:
> I was going to suggest gnus, but seems I was beaten to it. (I wasn't
> sure about the preview pane/show fisst 3 lines)
One could manage something, using a combination of window
reconfiguration and a custom variable to steal the first three lines of
the b
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why on earth would you want a single application to do all of that?
Because he's an Emacs fan? 8^) It doesn't sound as if he necessarily
wanted a single program to do all that, but did want a single
solution. (Check the references to "integrate into an
On Thursday 12 July 2001 19:35, Brian Nelson wrote:
> Kurt Lieber wrote:
> > OK, I've read with great amusement all the chest-thumping going on about
> > MUAs, MTAs and how Microsoft email products are things that you scrape
> > off the bottom of your shoe.
> >
> > I, for one, am brand-spanking new
OK, I've read with great amusement all the chest-thumping going on about
MUAs, MTAs and how Microsoft email products are things that you scrape
off the bottom of your shoe.
I, for one, am brand-spanking new at Linux and have yet to find a Linux
MUA that meets my needs. I really do like Linux and
Brian Nelson wrote:
>
> Kurt Lieber wrote:
>
> > If there isn't, then I hope the person who stated "anyone who uses MS
> > email products is ignorant" will reconsider their statement.
>
> That's not an accurate quote, but...
>
> Why on earth would you want a single application to do all of t
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:28:41AM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> OK, I've read with great amusement all the chest-thumping going on about
> MUAs, MTAs and how Microsoft email products are things that you scrape
> off the bottom of your shoe.
>
> I, for one, am brand-spanking new at Linux and have ye
Kurt Lieber wrote:
OK, I've read with great amusement all the chest-thumping going on about
MUAs, MTAs and how Microsoft email products are things that you scrape
off the bottom of your shoe.
I, for one, am brand-spanking new at Linux and have yet to find a Linux
MUA that meets my needs. I rea
Hall Stevenson wrote:
> The best part is, many people who bash
> Microsoft products have never used them, or at least not
> recently. I'm by no means defending their stuff (I'm using MS
> Outlook Express to send this, by the way, no gurus need to
> examine the mail headers to "expose" me). It's si
> "Charles" == Charles Sebold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> On 21 Tammuz 5761, Kurt Lieber wrote:
>> So, here's a list of my requirements and I'm hoping you guys can
>> point me to an MUA that meets them. If so, I'll gladly switch over
>> to Linux full-time and forswear Microsoft forev
Kurt Lieber wrote:
OK, I've read with great amusement all the chest-thumping going on about
MUAs, MTAs and how Microsoft email products are things that you scrape
off the bottom of your shoe.
I, for one, am brand-spanking new at Linux and have yet to find a Linux
MUA that meets my needs. I rea
> OK, I've read with great amusement all the
> chest-thumping going on about MUAs, MTAs
> and how Microsoft email products are things
> that you scrape off the bottom of your shoe.
>
> I, for one, am brand-spanking new at Linux and
> have yet to find a Linux MUA that meets my
> needs.
At first, I
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:28:41AM -0700, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> OK, I've read with great amusement all the chest-thumping going on about
> MUAs, MTAs and how Microsoft email products are things that you scrape
> off the bottom of your shoe.
>
> I, for one, am brand-spanking new at Linux and have ye
Kurt Lieber wrote:
> I, for one, am brand-spanking new at Linux and have yet to find a Linux
> MUA that meets my needs. I really do like Linux and would like to
> transition over to it for my desktop machine, but because of it's
> weakness on the MUA side, I haven't been able to do so. ("weaknes
Charles Sebold wrote:
> On 21 Tammuz 5761, Kurt Lieber wrote:
>
> > So, here's a list of my requirements and I'm hoping you guys can point
> > me to an MUA that meets them. If so, I'll gladly switch over to Linux
> > full-time and forswear Microsoft forever. :)
> But you seem very wedded to t
job is. So far, the best tool is
Outlook for my needs, but I'm hoping that y'all can show me something
different.
--kurt
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On 21 Tammuz 5761, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> So, here's a list of my requirements and I'm hoping you guys can point
> me to an MUA that meets them. If so, I'll gladly switch over to Linux
> full-time and forswear Microsoft forever. :)
Except for calendaring - Emacs + Gnus + BBDB + gnus-pers.el to ena
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