On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 07:27:37PM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> I have two questions.
>
> Here's the list:
I believe Mutt might suit your needs, if you accept the 'toolbox'
attitude common in unixlike systems and allow other utilities to
do some of the work.
> 1 - multiple address books and mailing lists
Lists: sure.
Address books: don't expect a full PIM, but there are aliases
you can map to email addresses.
> 2 - filters that can cause any of the following actions - copy or
> move messages to a different mailbox, forward and/or delete a
> message, copy a message to an external (text) file, set the
> read/unread status, send a canned reply, add sender to address book,
> inform me that a message matching a particular filter has arrived,
> run a program or script.
procmail is so flexible it used to work as a contortionist
before I hired it.
> 3 - filters should work on incoming or outgoing messages or both
Incoming: easy
Outgoing: should be doable, as there is a hook to control the
command that sends mail, but I've not done this myself nor seen
it done. What filters do you have in mind?
> 4 - it should be possible to run filters manually if necessary
(procmail) yes (see the NOTES section of procmail's main manpage)
> 5 - messages in each mailbox should be sorted by any or all of the
> following - from, to, size, read status, date, attachment - all sorts
> should be ascending or descending and it should be possible to
> provide different sort criteria for each mailbox.
Yes.
> 6 - spell checker
Yes, hook to ispell.
> 7 - multiple signatures
Yes, based on folder hooks.
> 8 - multiple accounts - i.e ability to download messages from several
> ISPs
(fetchmail) it's not the mail client's buisness to d/l mail
> 9 - remote control - i.e. the ability to see a list of e-mail waiting
> on the server and deciding manually which messages I want to download
Hmmmm.
Did you have that with a POP3 server? I know how that's doable
(RFC 1939 TOP command) but have never seen it implemented. Nice
feature!
> 10 - knows what to do with common types of attachments - .wav .jpg
> gif .html .tar .zip and others
/etc/mailcap
> 11 - search (like grep) inside a mail box using various criteria.
Yes.
> My second question is: Is it possible to **translate** the e-mail
> messages from my current OS/2 program to the format used by whatever
> Linux e-mail client I move to? I don't mind doing a bit of
> programming - C, PERL, or whatever, but I would like to have old mail
> I've saved over the years readable in my new client.
The "unix" mailbox format is very simple. If you grok your previous
mailer's format, you should be able to write a convertor easily.
I was not extremely specific in any of my answers. If you want more
detail about one of the points, do ask.
--
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