Re: [DNG] email clients: was Where to reply for Steve Litt

2019-05-24 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Adam Borowski (kilob...@angband.pl): > And why are you using past tense? Because, at that point, I was talking about the 1980s? > Such setup works just as well today as it did in the past. [/me thumps server.] Yes, I can confirm this. > Uh? The whole point of IMAP is that the mail

Re: [DNG] email clients: was Where to reply for Steve Litt

2019-05-24 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 06:42:02PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > Um, dunno, sorry. I don't do emacs. (I'm a sysadmin, not a coder. > C-x C-c is just about all the emacs I know -- the commands to get the > hell out.) Switch to another session, kill -9. This has the upside of working with other

Re: [DNG] email clients: was Where to reply for Steve Litt

2019-05-24 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 08:15:22PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: [cut] > > Can GNUS be used as a window into a local multilevel many-mailboxed > Dovecot IMAPserver? Same question with mutt: I haven't gotten it to > happen, correctly, all the time. > IMAP support in mutt works just fine. There were

Re: [DNG] email clients: was Where to reply for Steve Litt

2019-05-24 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 23.05.19 18:42, Rick Moen wrote: > And yes, I've heard many times that mbox is terrible and that I should > use Maildir instead because it's much better for NFS file locking and > for IMAP access. But: no NFS here, no IMAP here. Thus, no NFS > problems and no IMAP problems. > > The

Re: [DNG] email clients: was Where to reply for Steve Litt

2019-05-23 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > Can GNUS be used as a window into a local multilevel many-mailboxed > Dovecot IMAPserver? Um, dunno, sorry. I don't do emacs. (I'm a sysadmin, not a coder. C-x C-c is just about all the emacs I know -- the commands to get the hell out.) >

[DNG] email clients: was Where to reply for Steve Litt

2019-05-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 23 May 2019 15:21:30 -0700 Rick Moen wrote: > An unusually smart mailer (mutt, GNUS) I've been desparately looking for a new email client. The claws-mail community is just too unhelpful. I can't get mutt to completely work with my personal local dovecot server. Thunderbird's just too