Re: [gentoo-user] Choice of MUA

2016-08-11 Thread Todd Goodman
* Peter Humphrey [160811 01:29]: > On Wednesday 10 Aug 2016 15:21:54 Philip Webb wrote: > > 160810 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I've been using KMail for many years. It suits me in many ways, > > > the most important being that I don't need to keep switching my hands > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Choice of MUA

2016-08-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On August 11, 2016 7:51:29 AM GMT+02:00, Peter Humphrey wrote: >On Wednesday 10 Aug 2016 19:26:56 Mick wrote: > >> Peter, I recall you being a long term sufferer of Kmail2 problems, >which I >> do not experience here. > >Yes, I have some old archives preserved as tar.bz2

Re: [gentoo-user] Choice of MUA

2016-08-11 Thread Franz Fellner
On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 06:51:29 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 10 Aug 2016 19:26:56 Mick wrote: > > > Peter, I recall you being a long term sufferer of Kmail2 problems, which I > > do not experience here. > > Yes, I have some old archives preserved as tar.bz2

Re: [gentoo-user] Choice of MUA

2016-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
160811 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 10 Aug 2016 15:21:54 Philip Webb wrote: >> 160810 Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> I've been using KMail for many years. It suits me in many ways, >>> the most important being that I don't need to keep switching my hands >>> between mouse and keyboard. >> If

Re: [gentoo-user] Choice of MUA

2016-08-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 10 Aug 2016 19:26:56 Mick wrote: > Peter, I recall you being a long term sufferer of Kmail2 problems, which I > do not experience here. Yes, I have some old archives preserved as tar.bz2 files, but I can't import them into KMail because of some internal damage to many of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Choice of MUA

2016-08-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 10 Aug 2016 15:21:54 Philip Webb wrote: > 160810 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I've been using KMail for many years. It suits me in many ways, > > the most important being that I don't need to keep switching my hands > > between mouse and keyboard. > > If that's your criterion, why not

Re: [gentoo-user] Choice of MUA

2016-08-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:00:30 +0100, Mick wrote: > I can't recall which plugins I was using and what functions I was > having trouble re-wiring my brain, to comply with Claws ways of doing > things. It was more than just one key binding though. Over the time I > tried it I felt uncomfortable

Re: [gentoo-user] Choice of MUA

2016-08-10 Thread Philip Webb
160810 Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've been using KMail for many years. It suits me in many ways, > the most important being that I don't need to keep switching my hands > between mouse and keyboard. If that's your criterion, why not try Mutt ? I've been using it for c 20 years & have never

Re: [gentoo-user] Choice of MUA

2016-08-10 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 10 Aug 2016 19:43:00 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 19:26:56 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > > This week I tried Claws-mail. Creating and populating an MH folder > > > > structure for it from my KMail directory were easy, and it looked as > > > > though it would make a good

Re: [gentoo-user] Choice of MUA

2016-08-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 19:26:56 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > This week I tried Claws-mail. Creating and populating an MH folder > > > structure for it from my KMail directory were easy, and it looked as > > > though it would make a good alternative to KMail. But I can't do > > > anything without the

Re: [gentoo-user] Choice of MUA

2016-08-10 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 10 Aug 2016 13:36:39 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 11:01:10 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > This week I tried Claws-mail. Creating and populating an MH folder > > structure for it from my KMail directory were easy, and it looked as > > though it would make a good

Re: [gentoo-user] Choice of MUA

2016-08-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 11:01:10 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > This week I tried Claws-mail. Creating and populating an MH folder > structure for it from my KMail directory were easy, and it looked as > though it would make a good alternative to KMail. But I can't do > anything without the mouse!

[gentoo-user] Choice of MUA

2016-08-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I've been using KMail for many years. It suits me in many ways, the most important of which being that I don't need to keep switching my hands between mouse and keyboard. It has far more functionality than I need, but then so it seems do its competitors. The only problem is the