On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:58:46PM -1000, Joseph Dane wrote: | | Here's what I'd like to have: a mail client that I can access via a | nice, flashy GUI when I'm sitting at my desk, or via a simple | text-mode interface when I'm connecting remotely. | | Actually, it's my wife I'm primarily thinking about. She uses our | computer at home (Debian, natch) to read/send mail using Netscape. | She also occasionally connects from her parents' house, or from work | using ssh and getting a simple shell (text) interface. Right now, she | uses pine for this, but this sucks because: | | * netscape slurps up all read mail into its own 'nsmail' directory, | so she can only read new mail | | * netscape and pine don't (can't?) share addressbooks, so they either | get out of sync, or require more attention than one would like to | offer them
Balsa is a GNOME-based GUI MUA, and it uses the GNOME addressbook for it's addresses (a VCard (ascii) format you can manipulate gcard). I used balsa for a while, but it doesn't have mailing list support. I'm now very happy with mutt. I think it wouldn't be too hard to create a python/perl script to update mutt's address book from gcard's address book. Full VCard support isn't necessary, just the names and addresses. My solution has been to have 2 MUAs -- one gui and one ncurses, until I completely converted to mutt a few months back. -D
