Re: The dangers of .mbox mail clients?

2024-06-04 Thread Max Nikulin
On 04/06/2024 02:08, Chris M wrote: I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox format to store emails. It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client. You may configure local IMAP server (e.g. dovecot) to store your archive. It allows to av

Re: WAS: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ).. NOW~~The dangers of .mbox mail clients?

2024-06-03 Thread David Wright
On Mon 03 Jun 2024 at 14:08:46 (-0500), Chris M wrote: > I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox > format to store emails. > It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client. > > Is there any "dangers" I need to kn

Re: The dangers of .mbox mail clients?

2024-06-03 Thread Chris M
Felix Miata wrote: As I'm up 24/7, I never bother going "offline" in SM. What I meant was, I always click in SM: File > Offline > Work Offline That way SM isn't doing anything in the background while I am compacting folders. OLD bad habit, I know.

Re: The dangers of .mbox mail clients?

2024-06-03 Thread Felix Miata
Chris M composed on 2024-06-03 14:08 (UTC-0500): > Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping the mailbox a > certain size? > or a certain amount of emails per folder etc? ... > I always go offline, and then compact my folders after I get done > reading emails. In SM at least,

WAS: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ).. NOW~~The dangers of .mbox mail clients?

2024-06-03 Thread Chris M
I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox format to store emails. It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client. Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping the mailbox a certain size? or a certain amount of emails per f

Re: Mail clients

2012-10-22 Thread lee
Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes: On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 05:58:59PM +0200, lee wrote: Mutt isn't designed with the concept of folders in mind. It merely acknowledges the concept because the mails need to be stored /somewhere/. You mean it doesn't work out of the box and

Re: Mail clients

2012-10-22 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:10:09AM +0200, Erwan David wrote: On 21/10/12 10:51, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Could you please elaborate on that? As far as I can tell it's just a matter of configuring mutt correctly (the defaults are not really optimal). Mutt + Gmail, now that is a challenge!

Re: Mail clients

2012-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 22 oct 12, 15:41:48, lee wrote: Have you looked at the documentation of mutt? It talks about mail folders. It also talks about directories. It cannot rename folders or directories and it cannot (re-)move them (the argument is that mutt isn't a file manager), and it doesn't really

Re: Mail clients

2012-10-22 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: Here's the snippet I use: # Use everything that looks like a mailbox in ~/Maildir/ # except the ones explicitely excluded mailboxes ! + `\ for file in ~/Maildir/.*; do \ box=$(basename $file); \ if [ ! $box = '.' -a ! $box = '..' \

Mail clients [was: Re: Wally Lepore]

2012-10-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 20 oct 12, 06:54:21, lee wrote: Wally wants to learn some C programming, thus I suggested he learn emacs and might use gnus and try out vim and/or joe, whatever he likes best. Perhaps I should have mentioned mutt as well, but mutt with imap can be rather awkward. Could you please

Re: Mail clients [was: Re: Wally Lepore]

2012-10-21 Thread Erwan David
On 21/10/12 10:51, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 20 oct 12, 06:54:21, lee wrote: Wally wants to learn some C programming, thus I suggested he learn emacs and might use gnus and try out vim and/or joe, whatever he likes best. Perhaps I should have mentioned mutt as well, but mutt with imap can

Re: Mail clients [was: Re: Wally Lepore]

2012-10-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 21 oct 12, 11:10:09, Erwan David wrote: On 21/10/12 10:51, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Mutt + Gmail, now that is a challenge! Not really, the challenge is mutt + heavy html emails... GMail is easy once you activate imap and use mutt as an imap reader (in that case it's better to use the

Re: Mail clients [was: Re: Wally Lepore]

2012-10-21 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Sb, 20 oct 12, 06:54:21, lee wrote: Wally wants to learn some C programming, thus I suggested he learn emacs and might use gnus and try out vim and/or joe, whatever he likes best. Perhaps I should have mentioned mutt as well, but mutt with

Re: Mail clients

2012-10-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 05:58:59PM +0200, lee wrote: Mutt isn't designed with the concept of folders in mind. It merely acknowledges the concept because the mails need to be stored /somewhere/. You mean it doesn't work out of the box and requires some configuration? Hey, JFYI most good

Searching inside e-mail clients (was: KMail - forwarding issues)

2010-11-05 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:35:31 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:48:30 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: ... with mbox and searching strings in Icedove is bit slow if mbox files are big (measured in GiB :-P). If you're still doing on-demand searching, have you considered using a

Re: Searching inside e-mail clients (was: KMail - forwarding issues)

2010-11-05 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 07:01:28 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:35:31 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:48:30 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: ... with mbox and searching strings in Icedove is bit slow if mbox files are big (measured in GiB

Re: Mail clients attaching files (was Re: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system)

2010-03-23 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 03:29:05 Ron Johnson wrote: Next time you attach such a file, I suggest that you add a .txt so that your email/webmail app knows that it is a text file, instead of base64 encoded application/octet-stream. (Iceweasel/Thunderbird seems to peek into it, probably using

Mail clients attaching files (was Re: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system)

2010-03-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-22 21:56, Mike Viau wrote: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:29:01 -0400 ml...@post.harvard.edu wrote: On 23:37 Fri 19 Mar , Mike Viau wrote: My output with the suggestion above. debian:~# dpkg --dry-run --purge $(join -v2 (awk '{if ($2==install) print $1}'

RE: Mail clients attaching files (was Re: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system)

2010-03-22 Thread Mike Viau
Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:29:05 -0500 ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 2010-03-22 21:56, Mike Viau wrote: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:29:01 -0400 ml...@post.harvard.edu wrote: On 23:37 Fri 19 Mar , Mike Viau wrote: My output with the suggestion above. debian:~# dpkg

Re: Mail clients attaching files (was Re: [SOLVED] How to reduce a debian system to a base system)

2010-03-22 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:29:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2010-03-22 21:56, Mike Viau wrote: Attached for you convenience! sourced from: Debian Lenny Next time you attach such a file, I suggest that you add a .txt so that your email/webmail app knows that it is a text file, instead

Funky e-mail clients [Was] Re: why linux?

2007-05-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:22:38PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Mail clients known to reply funky: Outlook, Outlook Express (top posted by default, no viable fix except switching) GMail (breaks threading, any workarounds??). SMTP ;) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arafangion wrote: George Borisov wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: [snip] You may be required to use the proprietary Ximian Evolution which is the same as the free version, but it contains a module that allows it to talk to Exchange. That

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-25 Thread George Borisov
Dmitri Minaev wrote: And both Evolution and Thunderbird as IMAP clients are PITA to work with . Thunderbird sometimes can't copy the outgoing message into Sent Items folder [1]. Yup, but this seems to be more of a problem with Exchange IMAP component. In the same client I am connected to my

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-25 Thread Arafangion
George Borisov wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, Which other e-mail clients, other than Evolution, can I access MS-exchange accounts with? I tried and failed with Thunderbird. I use Thunderbird with our Exchange through IMAP. Depends if your server has it enabled. Hope

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-24 Thread Magnus Therning
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 07:25:32PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Which other e-mail clients, other than Evolution, can I access MS-exchange accounts with? I tried and failed with Thunderbird. If the Exchange server is recent enough it supports IMAP. Talk to your system admin and ask about

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-24 Thread Mihira Fernando
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, Which other e-mail clients, other than Evolution, can I access MS-exchange accounts with? I tried and failed with Thunderbird. MS Outlook on Wine ? Ace. -- Random Quotes From Megas XLR Coop: You see? The mysteries of the Universe are revealed when you break

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-24 Thread George Borisov
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, Which other e-mail clients, other than Evolution, can I access MS-exchange accounts with? I tried and failed with Thunderbird. I use Thunderbird with our Exchange through IMAP. Depends if your server has it enabled. Hope this helps, -- George Borisov

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-24 Thread Dmitri Minaev
wrote: Hi, Which other e-mail clients, other than Evolution, can I access MS-exchange accounts with? I tried and failed with Thunderbird. I use Thunderbird with our Exchange through IMAP. Depends if your server has it enabled. Hope this helps, -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd

Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-23 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, Which other e-mail clients, other than Evolution, can I access MS-exchange accounts with? I tried and failed with Thunderbird. malebo

Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-23 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, Which other e-mail clients, other than Evolution, can I access MS-exchange accounts with? I tried and failed with Thunderbird. malebo

Re: Which e-mail clients can I use to access MS-Exchange servers?

2006-05-23 Thread Dmitri Minaev
desktop. There was a commercial solution from HP, called OpenMail, but it is not available anymore. You may find something useful on this page, though: http://dcs.nac.uci.edu/~strombrg/exchange.html On 5/23/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Which other e-mail clients, other than

web-centric mail clients

2004-06-13 Thread Tom Allison
I've been using squirrelmail as my web-mail interface. But I'm wondering what else it out there in Debian packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: web-centric mail clients

2004-06-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Take a look at http://turtle.ee.ncku.edu.tw/openwebmail/ It's pretty full-featured, and runs fairly nicely there's an online demo on that page somewhere that you can try out to get a feel for it. Tom Allison wrote: I've been using squirrelmail as my web-mail interface. But I'm wondering what

Re: web-centric mail clients

2004-06-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Tom Allison wrote: I've been using squirrelmail as my web-mail interface. But I'm wondering what else it out there in Debian packages. Horde is 'da bomb. In addition to webmail, it also has a password changer (no need for shell access to change password), addressbook/contact manager (can connect

Re: Spam Flut und verschiedene Mail Clients

2004-02-22 Thread Stephan Windmller
Andreas van Hulst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mein System arbeitet mit fetchmail, postfix, cyrus, gibt es da eine möglichkeit die über diesen weg zu regeln? Kann Dir spamassassin ans Herz legen. Der erschlägt hier wirklich fast alles, lernt mit und ist für jeden User einfach einzurichten. Der

Re: Spam Flut und verschiedene Mail Clients

2004-02-21 Thread Joel HATSCH
Mein System arbeitet mit fetchmail, postfix, cyrus, gibt es da eine möglichkeit die über diesen weg zu regeln? Schau Dir mal das Paket mailfilter an. Das kann den Müll schon vom Server löschen. ja und nein. was ist mit false positives ? einfach löschen und Pech für den Absender ? ich habe

Re: Spam Flut und verschiedene Mail Clients

2004-02-20 Thread Michael Dominok
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 19:40, Manfred Schmitt wrote: Michael Dominok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 07:34, Andreas van Hulst wrote: Mein System arbeitet mit fetchmail, postfix, cyrus, gibt es da eine möglichkeit die über diesen weg zu regeln? fetchmail? D.h. Du

Re: Spam Flut und verschiedene Mail Clients

2004-02-20 Thread Martin Hennes
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:00:09 +0100 Christian Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo Rainer, Rainer Unkenstein, 19.02.2004 (d.m.y): Schau Dir mal das Paket mailfilter an. Das kann den Müll schon vom Server löschen. Man muss ihm nur sagen, was Muell ist...;-) Hallo, mailfilter

Re: Spam Flut und verschiedene Mail Clients

2004-02-20 Thread Manfred Schmitt
Michael Dominok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oder woher soll mailfilter wissen ob eine mail spam ist, viel mehr als das am absendenden server festzumachen geht ansonsten ja nicht? man mailfilterrc OK, Fehler meinerseits, bei mailfilter denke ich immer an meine .mailfilter, die gehoert aber

Re: Spam Flut und verschiedene Mail Clients

2004-02-19 Thread Michael Dominok
Tach auch, On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 07:34, Andreas van Hulst wrote: Mein System arbeitet mit fetchmail, postfix, cyrus, gibt es da eine möglichkeit die über diesen weg zu regeln? fetchmail? D.h. Du holst Dir den Spam erst von wo 'runter um ihn dann mit Deinem Client zu Filtern? Kuck Dir mal

Re: Spam Flut und verschiedene Mail Clients

2004-02-19 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2004-02-19 07:34:40, schrieb Andreas van Hulst: Hallo, Mein System arbeitet mit fetchmail, postfix, cyrus, gibt es da eine möglichkeit die über diesen weg zu regeln? Ich kenne nur eine Lösung mit 'procmail' viele grüße und danke schon mal Andreas Greetings Michelle -- Registered

Re: Spam Flut und verschiedene Mail Clients

2004-02-19 Thread Rainer Unkenstein
Am Thu, 19 Feb 2004 07:34:40 +0100 Andreas van Hulst [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Mein System arbeitet mit fetchmail, postfix, cyrus, gibt es da eine möglichkeit die über diesen weg zu regeln? Schau Dir mal das Paket mailfilter an. Das kann den Müll schon vom Server löschen. Rainer -- Hast

Re: Spam Flut und verschiedene Mail Clients

2004-02-19 Thread Michael Holtermann
Moin Kristian! On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:02:05 +0100 Kristian Rink wrote: apt-cache show amavis-ng Da leg ich doch gleich eine Frage nach. Ersetzt amavis das fetchmail? Wie darf ich mir dann den Weg einer Mail vom Server in mein Cyrus vorstellen? Derzeit habe ich ProviderPOP3 - fetchmail -

Re: Spam Flut und verschiedene Mail Clients

2004-02-19 Thread Manfred Schmitt
Michael Dominok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 07:34, Andreas van Hulst wrote: Mein System arbeitet mit fetchmail, postfix, cyrus, gibt es da eine möglichkeit die über diesen weg zu regeln? fetchmail? D.h. Du holst Dir den Spam erst von wo 'runter um ihn dann mit Deinem

Re: Spam Flut und verschiedene Mail Clients

2004-02-19 Thread Manfred Schmitt
Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2004-02-19 07:34:40, schrieb Andreas van Hulst: Mein System arbeitet mit fetchmail, postfix, cyrus, gibt es da eine möglichkeit die über diesen weg zu regeln? Ich kenne nur eine Lösung mit 'procmail' Das impliziert aber natuerlich nicht das

Re: Spam Flut und verschiedene Mail Clients

2004-02-19 Thread Udo Mueller
Hallo Michael, * Michael Holtermann schrieb [19-02-04 18:44]: On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:02:05 +0100 Kristian Rink wrote: apt-cache show amavis-ng Da leg ich doch gleich eine Frage nach. Ersetzt amavis das fetchmail? Wie darf ich mir dann den Weg einer Mail vom Server in mein Cyrus

Re: Spam Flut und verschiedene Mail Clients

2004-02-19 Thread Christian Schmidt
Hallo Rainer, Rainer Unkenstein, 19.02.2004 (d.m.y): Schau Dir mal das Paket mailfilter an. Das kann den Müll schon vom Server löschen. Man muss ihm nur sagen, was Muell ist...;-) Gruss, Christian -- Herr Doktor, der Patient von Zimmer 345, der Simulant, ist letzte Nacht gestorben. - Oha,

Re: Spam Flut und verschiedene Mail Clients

2004-02-19 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2004-02-19 18:44:22, schrieb Michael Holtermann: Moin Kristian! On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 08:02:05 +0100 Kristian Rink wrote: apt-cache show amavis-ng Da leg ich doch gleich eine Frage nach. Ersetzt amavis das fetchmail? Wie darf ich mir dann den Weg einer Mail vom Server in mein Cyrus vorstellen?

Re: Spam Flut und verschiedene Mail Clients

2004-02-19 Thread Rainer Unkenstein
Am Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:00:09 +0100 Christian Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hallo Rainer, Rainer Unkenstein, 19.02.2004 (d.m.y): Schau Dir mal das Paket mailfilter an. Das kann den Müll schon vom Server löschen. Man muss ihm nur sagen, was Muell ist...;-) Jo, genau :-) Und das

Spam Flut und verschiedene Mail Clients

2004-02-18 Thread Andreas van Hulst
Hallo, In mein Postfach laufen mittlerweile ca 100 - 150 spam mails am tag ein, mit dem Mozilla junk mail habe ich die sache schon mal im griff, jetzt bin ich aber in der situation das ich mich auf einen Mail Client festlegen muss, und das schmeckt mir nicht wirklich! Mein System arbeitet mit

Re: Spam Flut und verschiedene Mail Clients

2004-02-18 Thread Kristian Rink
Hallo Andreas,... On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 07:34:40 +0100 Andreas van Hulst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mein System arbeitet mit fetchmail, postfix, cyrus, gibt es da eine möglichkeit die über diesen weg zu regeln? apt-cache show amavis-ng Amavis-ng ist in einem ähnlichen Setup (nur, daß wir Post

Re: Sylpheed and mail clients (was: Can Kmail be used outside ofKDE)?

2002-12-22 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 21:12:41 -0800 Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:31 AM 12/18/02 +, Carlos Sousa wrote: Sorry for taking so long to get back to this -- it's been one of those weeks. On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:00:25 -0800 Bill Moseley wrote: That version of Sylpheed doesn't

Re: Sylpheed and mail clients (was: Can Kmail be used outside ofKDE)?

2002-12-22 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Shawn Lamson wrote: Did you right click on Mailbox (MH) folder and rebuild folder tree ? No, but that does seem to fix it. I wonder why it keeps getting off in its counts. http://hank.org/images/sylpheed.png That image looks just like mine - it looks like you

Re: Sylpheed and mail clients (was: Can Kmail be used outside of KDE)?

2002-12-21 Thread Bill Moseley
At 08:31 AM 12/18/02 +, Carlos Sousa wrote: Sorry for taking so long to get back to this -- it's been one of those weeks. On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:00:25 -0800 Bill Moseley wrote: That version of Sylpheed doesn't seem to deal well with counting new messages, and when I use the threaded view I

Re: Sylpheed and mail clients (was: Can Kmail be used outside of KDE)?

2002-12-18 Thread Carlos Sousa
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:00:25 -0800 Bill Moseley wrote: That version of Sylpheed doesn't seem to deal well with counting new messages, and when I use the threaded view I seem to miss new messages. I need to figure out how to show messages in *received* order. Must be a temporary breakage. I'm

Sylpheed and mail clients (was: Can Kmail be used outside of KDE)?

2002-12-17 Thread Bill Moseley
At 06:33 PM 12/17/02 -0500, Shawn Lamson wrote: Short answer yes it can be used withouth KDE; as to your particular problem I don't know... have you tried sylpheed-claws as a mail agent? It is a lot lighter than say Evolution. I have tried sylpheed-claws -- I've tried using it a few times, quite

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-03-15 Thread Alan James
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 12:25:31AM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:37:06PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: (and to know that they're in maildir format), then run all your old messages back through procmail again. I believe procmail comes with a utility called 'formail'

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-03-15 Thread Petro
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:37:06PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: begin Alan James quotation: I'd like to give maildir a go, so how do I convert MH to MailDir ? If you use procmail, just set up new empty maildir folders corresponding to each of your old MH folders, edit .procmailrc to use

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-03-14 Thread Alan James
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:59:15PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: begin Alan James quotation: Are you still using MH folders ? How'd you get mutt to show a list of MH folders with the new message count for each ? I converted my MH folders to maildir and now I use that. Mutt seems to

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-03-14 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Alan James quotation: I'd like to give maildir a go, so how do I convert MH to MailDir ? If you use procmail, just set up new empty maildir folders corresponding to each of your old MH folders, edit .procmailrc to use the new folders (and to know that they're in maildir format), then

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-03-14 Thread Chris Hilts
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 08:37:06PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: (and to know that they're in maildir format), then run all your old messages back through procmail again. I believe procmail comes with a utility called 'formail' which you might find useful for this. Chris Hilts [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:06:10 -0800 Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net wrote: I dunno. Don't have it installed anymore. Pretty recent version of the non-claws version (last month or so). The memory leak was a slow but substantial one. I was often leaving Sylpheed running for days, but after a

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On 24 Feb 2002 20:28:56 + Patrick Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 19:55, Bill Moseley wrote: At 11:25 AM 02/24/02 -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: Although I read that IMAP can be slow if you have many mailboxes (I have almost 100), and hundreds of messages a day.

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 04:53:02 -0300 Gustavo Noronha Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 14:06:10 -0800 Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net wrote: I dunno. Don't have it installed anymore. Pretty recent version of the non-claws version (last month or so). The memory leak was a

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 02:00:03 -0600 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dunno. Don't have it installed anymore. Pretty recent version of the non-claws version (last month or so). The memory leak was a slow but substantial one. I was often leaving Sylpheed running for days, but

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Alan James
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:36:18 -0500 Bob Thibodeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I'd try Sylpheed after seing mention of it on this list, but never felt like configuring another client. Now that I've read it doesn't play nice with mutt, I'll just remove it. I've got it working reasonable

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Craig Dickson
. This is only a very minor annoyance though, and I think I'll stick with this configuration for a while. I found it a major annoyance, but maybe I just receive a lot more mail than you do. To me, also, there was the basic question, why do I need two different mail clients? Aside from the lack of point

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Alan James
need two different mail clients? Aside from the lack of point-and-click to select messages, mutt has a pretty decent UI, and it's customizable enough that I was able to work around the things that annoyed me the most about it. So now I just use mutt. Are you still using MH folders ? How'd you get

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-25 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Alan James quotation: Are you still using MH folders ? How'd you get mutt to show a list of MH folders with the new message count for each ? I converted my MH folders to maildir and now I use that. Mutt seems to handle maildir better, and it's a better format in general (you don't

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:38:37PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: I was using RedHat 7.2 for a while and I actually liked the KDE setup, although a bit heavy weight. But I also like how light-weight of a setup I now have with Debian. (I suppose I'll need a desktop environment at some point.)

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread M.Alberto
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:38:37PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: And not related to email, anyone have a replacement suggestion (other than Emacs ;) for my old basic friend on the windows side of Program File Editor (pfe)? Don't waste time with emacs and vi. Try jed. It's the best console editor

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 05:55, Timothy R. Butler wrote: I was using RedHat 7.2 for a while and I actually liked the KDE setup, although a bit heavy weight. But I also like how light-weight of a setup I now have with Debian. (I suppose I'll need a desktop environment at some point.) xfce

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 23/02/02 Bill Moseley did speaketh: My head is swimming a bit trying to limit my choices of mail clients to test. My personal preference is Mutt, but coming from browsers and Eudora, you might want to try something simpler to begin with. Evolution is not ready, IMHO. Even at 1.0

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Wendell Cochran
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 21:38:37 -0800 From: Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] . . . Like many, I'm coming from a Windows environment. I've got three linux machines under my desk and for a year now I've booted Win98 used basically only browsers and Eudora (3.0) on my Win98

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Michael P. Soulier quotation: Sylpheed is excellent I'm told. Sylpheed is quite nice. I don't use it myself because I don't want to be dependent on an X app to read my mail (I use mutt), but my wife switched to Sylpheed after we decided that Outlook Express was too dangerous, and

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Bill Moseley
At 08:46 AM 02/24/02 -0800, Wendell Cochran wrote: So, to start off with, I'm looking to make the transition to full-time Linux easy by finding similar tools to I'm used to using. [snip] Similarities can be confusing. Maybe -- maybe -- you'd do better to accept differences, even seek them out.

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread moseley
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:33:55AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: Sylpheed is quite nice. I don't use it myself because I don't want to be dependent on an X app to read my mail (I use mutt), but my wife switched to Sylpheed after we decided that Outlook Express was too dangerous, and she's

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Craig Dickson
begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: Is there a debian package for Sylpheed? Yes, in Woody and Sid. BTW -- why would using an X mail application exclude you from also running mutt? It's not so much prevented as made sufficiently painful. I tried using Sylpheed and mutt together several

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread csj
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:41:54 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:33:55AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: Sylpheed is quite nice. I don't use it myself because I don't want to be dependent on an X app to read my mail (I use mutt), but my wife switched to Sylpheed after

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 10:05:13 -0800 Craig Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: Is there a debian package for Sylpheed? Yes, in Woody and Sid. BTW -- why would using an X mail application exclude you from also running mutt? It's not so much

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 01:00:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 10:05:13 -0800 Craig Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] quotation: Is there a debian package for Sylpheed? Yes, in Woody and Sid. BTW -- why would using an X mail

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Bill Moseley
At 11:25 AM 02/24/02 -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: I believe nmh uses .mh_sequences or some such. So, that would probably be the standard way. Sylpheed uses it's own sequence file, so it won't even jibe with the mh way of managing mail. This is something the Sylpheed folks should fix. I tried

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 19:55, Bill Moseley wrote: At 11:25 AM 02/24/02 -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: Although I read that IMAP can be slow if you have many mailboxes (I have almost 100), and hundreds of messages a day. I have the same problem. The truth is that most mail cleints that

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 14:28, Patrick Kirk wrote: Evolution is a heavy application and has some quirks. but it is a very good IMAP client in that it allows shortcuts to your frequently used mailboxes and only asks you to select from mailboxes as opposed to all files. I run an IMAP server to

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:22:22 -0800 Craig Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: begin Michael P. Soulier quotation: Sylpheed is excellent I'm told. Sylpheed is quite nice. I don't use it myself because I don't want to be dependent on an X app to read my mail (I use mutt), but my wife

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:41:54 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:33:55AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: Sylpheed is quite nice. I don't use it myself because I don't want to be dependent on an X app to read my mail (I use mutt), but my wife switched to Sylpheed after

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 21:56:23 -0800 Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net wrote: Possibly dead? Sylpheed: (which I just read about on this list). Works pretty well. Is fairly lightweight. I noticed it leaks a significant amount of memory over time (days). No idea about IMAP support

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 06:30:17PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 21:56:23 -0800 Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net wrote: Possibly dead? Sylpheed: (which I just read about on this list). Works pretty well. Is fairly lightweight. I noticed it leaks a

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Bob Thibodeau
choices of mail clients to test. I'm wondering if someone can help narrow my choices. Background: Like many, I'm coming from a Windows environment. I've got three linux machines under my desk and for a year now I've booted Win98 used basically only browsers and Eudora (3.0) on my Win98 machine

Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-23 Thread Bill Moseley
My head is swimming a bit trying to limit my choices of mail clients to test. I'm wondering if someone can help narrow my choices. Background: Like many, I'm coming from a Windows environment. I've got three linux machines under my desk and for a year now I've booted Win98 used basically only

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-23 Thread Timothy R. Butler
lighter in Debian than RedHat. The nice thing is you could stick to a very light weight KDE here - maybe just kdebase, konqueror, and konsole - or something like that. So, for graphical mail clients: Knowing that I'm coming from a simple life with Eudora (and have never liked Outlook), any

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-23 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:38:37PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: Evolution: No comment other than lots of eye candy and resource demands. Several like it. It and its brethren nautilus are just to resource intensive for my old hardware. Mahogany: No idea. Aethera: No idea.

Mail clients Lock-in (was Re: What's a debian kid look like?)

2001-12-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 11:53:42AM +, Phillip Deackes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 24 Dec 2001 17:44:44 -0500 Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, but when a business chooses degenerate mail and forces everyone to use it, I'd be pretty suspicious of high-level idiocy within

Re: configuring debian for network mail clients

2000-12-14 Thread presi
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: I now there is gnupop-3d. I used it and it worked quite good On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:22:29PM -0500, Dwight Johnson wrote: On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... What is the name of the debian pop package? I do not see one in

Re: configuring debian for network mail clients

2000-12-11 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:22:29PM -0500, Dwight Johnson wrote: On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... What is the name of the debian pop package? I do not see one in the list of packages. I do not want imap. apt-cache search pop will give pages full of packages, you'll have a little

configuring debian for network mail clients

2000-12-10 Thread Dwight Johnson
I must configure my debian box so my wife can read and send her mail using Eudora from her Win95 box which is delivered to her mailbox (/var/mail/user) on the debian box using fetchmail/procmail/exim. Normal TCP/IP networking is already working on the network. The debian box is configured as an

Re: configuring debian for network mail clients

2000-12-10 Thread cfelling
Hi Dwight, read this on debian-user, but there was a different mailing-list refered to in the To: header, so I'm cc-ing you/debian-user instead. On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 03:33:58PM -0500, Dwight Johnson wrote: ... When she tries to read her mail using Eudora, she gets a message that her

Re: configuring debian for network mail clients

2000-12-10 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your reply. On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 03:33:58PM -0500, Dwight Johnson wrote: ... When she tries to read her mail using Eudora, she gets a message that her connection has been refused. When she tries to send mail, she gets a message

RE: mail clients

1999-05-26 Thread Christian Dysthe
Well, there is one email client that will do most of what Outlook Express does. XFmail. Not used alone though, but together with exim and fetchmail it works great for me. I have two accounts dealt with fine using XFmail. Using filters, and the option to set a custom From for every folder it is

NDN: Re: mail clients

1999-05-25 Thread Post Office
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