Jon Burchmore wrote: > Hello All, > > I currently use MS Outlook 98 on a Windows PC to read my Email (I get > about 600-700 messages/day from various mailing lists). I would *really* > like to switch over to a Debian-based solution, but I haven't been > able to find a mail client that supports my needs under Linux: > > 1. IMAP support > 2. PGP integration > 3. X (preferably gtk) based UI > 4. The ability to support multiple mail servers/accounts. > > So far I've had the best results with Netscape Communicator's Email client, > but it frequently craps out when accessing some of my larger folders (12,000+ > messages), and is unable to handle PGP at all. > > Outlook, spawn of the devil and all, has some features that I really like. I > can open up an Email message fullscreen and skip to the next/previous message > with a single hotkey (Netscape Communicator does this, other clients such as > Balsa do not). > > I have a grand total of 3 Email accounts (two IMAP and one POP3). Netscape > will let me use the two IMAP accounts, but it doesn't allow more than one > Email account when using POP3. > > So, what does everyone here use? Should I just wait for projects such as > Balsa or Aeleron to get better? Should I punt and just use PINE under > an Xterm? Is there a way to integrate PGP into Netscape Communicator?
I would like to suggest that you split the retrieval/sorting/filtering duties from the Email client (MUA). You can use fetchmail to download all your email from multiple accounts. Then you use smail/procmail or exim to sort and deliver it locally. Then, all your MUA has to do is be able to read from different folders. And if you must have an X-based MUA, then I would suggest mutt... (in an xterm) ;) -Mitch BTW - as you can see, mutt handles pgp just fine.
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