On 22 Apr 2008 at 8:51, Jerry Feldman wrote: ... > A number of years ago (probably about 10) I exchanged some email with > David Harris on this. When I moved from Windows to Linux as my primary > desktop platform, I used exmh, then converted to sylpheed, then > sylpheed-claws, then claws-mail. (Claws was at one time an extension of > sylpheed). Claws-mail is available on both Linux and Windows, and is > very light weight. At the time I moved my email to Linux, I was dual > booting, and I wrote a C program to convert the Pegasus mail format > files (at that time Pegasus used its own format) to mh (mh uses a > directory structure as folders with 1 message per file).
I looked at claws - unsuitable for the way things are set up here. Pegasus and TB have one overwhelming advantage for me - each can be set up with all the mailboxes and configuration data on a central server, common to windows, freebsd and linux workstations. Which means on our home LAN, we can get at the exact same mail and news configurations from any machine the code runs on. It took some fiddling, I'll grant, but it /can/ be done. I've not yet seen any other mail reader that could do likewise. What I don't fully understand is the peg team's comment about needing a complete rewrite to run on *nix. I'd have hoped the display stuff would have been made modular enough to make this a ready job. I can't really see what else could cause a problem. <cynicmode>I wonder if poor code quality is the reason they won't go open source.</cynicmode> Anyway, pegasus is obviously out of the question. Maybe anyone putting forward ideas for an OOo-integrated mail client could take on board the comment above about access to the same mailboxes and configuration from multiple workstations. I remember Sun used to say years ago that "the network is the computer" - it would be nice to think we might get there one day :-) -- Permission for this mail to be processed by any third party in connection with marketing or advertising purposes is hereby explicitly denied. http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
