On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 01:05:33 +0100 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 17:28:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > At the moment I'm using claws and it seems quite fine. It has it's > > funnies (mostly just different behaviour from kmail actually) so I > > need to rewire my brain a bit. > > I *really* like Claws Mail, I never liked KMail. In fact, removing > KDEPIM is the best way to improve KDE. :-) > > It wants to wait for me to manually expunge folders, and I haven't > > quite > > Account Preferences>Advanced>Move deleted mail to trash and expunge > immediately When I'd got around to reading the FAQ, I found this very tidbit of useful info but thanks > > figured out how to always get it to use the correct .sig (a few > > times my work .sig got used on mailing lists where I always use > > gmail), but claws has these two amazing features that make it a > > killer app for me: > > Set up a different (SMTP-only if necessary) account for each address > and specify the sig. You can set the default account to use for a > folder, which means you always use the correct address on a mailing > list. If no default account is set, Claws will default to using the > account that the mail you are replying to was sent to. I like to use local IMAP folder and route all mail into those, organized by work and other. I found that I can set prefs for a top folders and all children folders which handled this one nicely. > > > - it actually sends, receives and stores mail (akonadi users will > > appreciate how a mailer can get to make that insanely more complex > > than it needs to be) > > I'm so glad I ditched KMail before akonadi and friends came along. "The mythical man-month" by Brooks perfectly describes akonadi, they went right ahead and made every mistake in the book, especially all the ones solved in the 70s already,... -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
