Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, mulix wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 05:34:11PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, mulix wrote: > > > > > if you'll look at my headers, you'll see that i'm using mutt as well > > > as of now. its handling of large mailboxes does leave something to be > > >

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread mulix
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 05:34:11PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, mulix wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:24:15PM +0200, Christoph Bugel wrote: > > > On Sun 2002-02-24, mulix wrote: > > > > hello, linuxers, > > > > > > > > anyone knows a good mailer, command line based,

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, mulix wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:24:15PM +0200, Christoph Bugel wrote: > > On Sun 2002-02-24, mulix wrote: > > > hello, linuxers, > > > > > > anyone knows a good mailer, command line based, which can handle very > > > large mailboxes? on the order of thousands andten

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, mulix wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:16:10PM +0200, Orr Dunkelman wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, mulix wrote about "Re: mua which handles very large >mailboxes": > > &g

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, imagine your mail not being on a sleazy ISP, but rather on a server > you trust (your own Internet-connected machine, you company's > server, etc.). I was thinking in terms of reading my mail off a server belonging to an ISP, hopefully not sleaz

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, mulix wrote: > hello, linuxers, > > anyone knows a good mailer, command line based, which can handle very > large mailboxes? on the order of thousands and tens of thousands > of messages (think lkml archive). > > mailers i'm not interested in: pine (i'm using it right now,doe

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Orr Dunkelman wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, mulix wrote about "Re: mua which handles very large >mailboxes": > > > imap is also *plain text*. need i say any more? > > > > Ah

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread mulix
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 04:16:10PM +0200, Orr Dunkelman wrote: > On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, mulix wrote about "Re: mua which handles very large >mailboxes": > > > imap is also *plain text*. need i say any more? >

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, Orr Dunkelman wrote about "Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes": > I believe that mulix talked about encryption (plain text = not encrypted). > Thus, all the messages can be understood by the entire network. Oh :) Most IMAP clients/servers suppor

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Orr Dunkelman wrote: > I believe that mulix talked about encryption (plain text = not encrypted). > Thus, all the messages can be understood by the entire network. It depends upon how paranoid you are. In some cases encryption is not need and it does slow things down a bit. If you want it, you c

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Christoph Bugel
On Sun 2002-02-24, Nadav Har'El wrote: > I use mutt too, by the way. It has no problems readying a 1000-mail folder, > but it still takes quite a few seconds (because the folder is a sequencial > file that needs to be read entirely - there's no "index" associated with the > standard Unix mbox form

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Orr Dunkelman
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, mulix wrote about "Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes": > > imap is also *plain text*. need i say any more? > > Ah? What do you mean imap is plain text? > > IMAP is just a protocol for

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote about "Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes": > I never bothered exploring IMAP as an alternative to POP from my own > mail reading. While mostly it was due to unwillingness to invest time > and effort into this, part of th

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, mulix wrote about "Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes": > imap is also *plain text*. need i say any more? Ah? What do you mean imap is plain text? IMAP is just a protocol for remote access to mail messages (IMAP="Internet Message Access Prot

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > I suspect you misread the original posting, since mulix was > specifically looking for a non-X MUA. Sorry, I thought he said that he could not use an X based MUA as he was connecting from SSH. If he tunneled his IMAP session via ssh the he would have secure access to HIS

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you looked into IMAP? IMAP is a protocol that keeps mail on the > server. I never bothered exploring IMAP as an alternative to POP from my own mail reading. While mostly it was due to unwillingness to invest time and effort into this, pa

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread mulix
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 03:20:37PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > mulix wrote: > > > mailers i'm not interested in: pine (i'm using it right now, doesnt cut > > it above several hundred messages), evolution, kmail, mozilla, any other > > x based mailer. i read my mail over ssh frequently,

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
mulix wrote: > mailers i'm not interested in: pine (i'm using it right now, doesnt cut > it above several hundred messages), evolution, kmail, mozilla, any other > x based mailer. i read my mail over ssh frequently, and an x mua is not > feasible. Have you looked into IMAP? IMAP is a protocol th

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread mulix
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:40:46PM +0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > mulix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > anyone knows a good mailer, command line based, which can handle very > > large mailboxes? on the order of thousands and tens of thousands > > of messages (think lkml archive). > > What do

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
mulix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > anyone knows a good mailer, command line based, which can handle very > large mailboxes? on the order of thousands and tens of thousands > of messages (think lkml archive). What do you mean by "handle"? Like actually reading mail using it? I use GNUS, which c

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread mulix
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:24:15PM +0200, Christoph Bugel wrote: > On Sun 2002-02-24, mulix wrote: > > hello, linuxers, > > > > anyone knows a good mailer, command line based, which can handle very > > large mailboxes? on the order of thousands and tens of thousands > > of messages (think lkml ar

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Christoph Bugel
On Sun 2002-02-24, mulix wrote: > hello, linuxers, > > anyone knows a good mailer, command line based, which can handle very > large mailboxes? on the order of thousands and tens of thousands > of messages (think lkml archive). I'm using mutt. mutt supports many mailbox formats, but I use the de

Re: mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Feb 24, 2002, mulix wrote about "mua which handles very large mailboxes": >... > anyone knows a good mailer, command line based, which can handle very > large mailboxes? on the order of thousands and tens of thousands > of messages (think lkml archive). >... &g

mua which handles very large mailboxes

2002-02-24 Thread mulix
hello, linuxers, anyone knows a good mailer, command line based, which can handle very large mailboxes? on the order of thousands and tens of thousands of messages (think lkml archive). mailers i'm not interested in: pine (i'm using it right now, doesnt cut it above several hundred messages), ev