-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/08 02:54, Dan H. wrote: [snip] > > I like Claws (called "sylpheed-claws" in Debian). Not to be confused with > the more basic and less GTKish "sylpheed". Of the X MUAs I've tried (Opera,
???? Sylpheed has been GTK2 for quite some time now. Almost 2 years. > Thunderbird, Evolution) I like it by far the best. It also is by far the > fastest. GPG support isn't as smooth as in TB which provied an entire GUI > wrapper around GPG but it works fine. > > That said, I switched from Claws to mutt a couple weeks ago and I'm loving > it. Well, I guess it's always fun to start something new. > > Unfortunately mutt and Claws don't co-operate too well on one and the same > MH folder tree and, despite the availability of a plug-in called > "sylpheed-claws-gtk2-maildir-plugin", Claws doesn't deal with Maildir-style > folders. Specifically, if you want to use Claws and mutt concurrently, make > sure that folders don't contain both messages and subfolders (which Claws > permits but mutt doesnt). Also Claws unneccesarily puts a .mh-sequence tag > in folders that only contain subfolders which causes mutt not to show the > subfolders. These issues are (apparently) caused by mutt's incomplete MH > spec support. > > Get Claws. It's fun and fast. As a mutt user you'll appreciate the latter. > And you're right about not using the built-in MTA functionality (as I've > discovered only after moving all that to fetchmail/procmail/exim). When you > first start Claws, it'll want you to set up a mail account with server and > all. Just asdf through that. When Claws is up and running, set up a new > account with Server "None (SMTP only)" and delete the dummy account you > created in the first set up. Y voilá. Move all your email into an IMAP store. Then you can use whatever MUA you want, whenever you want, and not have to worry about MUA storage incompatibility. (courier-imap and dovecot-imapd are popular IMAP packages.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHpt4YS9HxQb37XmcRAs6KAKCgfOJHQt5geF3GytDxCRSUjQE9FACfcamj yPYiCSlzzHJZ5KJlsl0ro+k= =tbO1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
