On Thursday 17 April 2014 16:32:34 James wrote:
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > > Is there another easy to use front end read/post to gentoo-user?
> > 
> > I never could get the hang of reading mail in a browser....
> 
> Gmane is very nice. it mostly works. I noticed all the "WEFT" messages
> are gone (for now?)......Lars BUDDY!
> 
> > I'm still very olde skool in these matters, so:
> > Subscribe directly to gentoo-user and pop your mail from gmail in a
> > regular mail client?
> 
> pine?   common Alan, your dating us old farts......
> alpine? (I guess is the current form/derivative of pine?    REALLY?

Pine, that brings back some old memories...

> If you do this, you have to delete messages. With Gmane, I can ignore
> gentoo-user sporadically with no consequences. Also, If I can get to
> any browser, I can read and post to gentoo-user; which has saved my
> bacon on several occations.......

Why delete messages when using a real mail client?

> What I was hoping for is some new fancy (ajax/ruby/?) frontend that
> works better than gmane.org............?

mail-client/roundcube ?
With an imap-server (  net-mail/cyrus-imapd ) 

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Joost


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