On 22 Apr 2008 at 10:40, Jerry Feldman wrote:
...
> This is exactly why OO.o should not have its own client. The way you
> process your email. I believe that claws does support the way you want,
> but each email client has its own personality. Most modern email
The personality's the problem with quite a few programs: they want
their config in a particular place (just like OOo itself I think :-))
and won't offer an option to have it elsewhere ("no one will ever
need that"). (Even pegasus I've fixed with a judicious use of samba
exports plus symlinks plus XP drive mappings; although the most
recent version may be easier.)
> clients support the IMAP4 protocol, which is what you are using. This
Er, no. I use nice, simple pop3. Call me old-fashioned, but it has
worked well enough, and imap4 would, I think, be a significant effort
to set up on a home LAN. Maybe one day.
> protocol allows users to view email on the server. Claws does support
> this, but I have seen some issues on the claws list.
>
> Pegasus mail has been around for a very long time, and started as an
> MS-DOS client. When I first used it under Windows 3.0, it was still a
> DOS client. I don't buy the Pegasus team's answer that it cannot be
> ported (and porting is what I have done for many years, mainly from
> 32-bit to 64-bit DEC Alpha and Intel IA64). I think what they are
> really saying is that the amount of work is not worth the effort. One
I'd agree there; which is a shame.
> conversation I had at one time was for them to use WINE. A Windows
> application can be ported to Linux using the WINE libraries.
Pegasus so /nearly/ works with wine. But advice is that wine itself
is unstable enough that "works today, fails tomorrow" is entirely
possible: not a game I fancy!
Anyway, well OT for this list - time to kill this subthread perhaps.
Thanks for the comments.
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