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[Arjan Bouter <a_bouter AT ezrs.com>]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 21:16:23 +0200
Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 03:01:17PM -0400, jason AT flattfamily.com wrote:
> > Howdy all.
> > 
> > Because I use Kontact (Kmail) for e-mail and because I upgraded gcc/g++ to
> > the latest devel version (3.4.1) and because Qt uses c++ and broke when I
> > upgraded gcc/g++ and because my computer doesn't like to compile for long
> > periods and randomly freezes when it does (I don't know why), I have been
> > checking my e-mail using http://www.mail2web.com/.
> > 
> > I find checking my e-mail that way to be slow and cumbersome.  I also 
> > don't
> > have little niceties like spell checkers (I'm a really lousy speller, as
> > I'm sure you'll see in this message) and auto signatures using that web
> > mail service.  I have in the past threatened to move away from an e-mail
> > client that was so suseptible to changes in other apps, but I have yet to
> > find anything that seemed to be less suseptible w/o going to a CLI client.
> > 
> > So, the idea that I've come up with is to standardize on the mail data
> > format (maildir, mbox, whatever), and to have two or three e-mail clients
> > installed that will all read and write the same data files (even if 
> > they're
> > not allowed to do it simultaneously).  Most (maybe all) of the e-mail
> > clients I've looked at have claimed standards compliance, compatibility,
> > using common date formats, etc., etc., etc., yet none of the ones I have
> > tried have given what (I believe) they claim.
> > 
> > My question is does anyone know of any helpful documentation which 
> > compares
> > and contrasts e-mail data formats and the e-mail clients that use them so
> > that I may achieve the Nirvana of e-mail reading?  Or does anyone have any
> > first hand experience they would care to share?
>  
> I think the best way is to use an imap server, most mail clients are
> capable of imap. dovecot is a nice small server which worked fine when i
> tried it (except that it doesn't work together with mutt due to bugs in
> both programs).
> Other than that i've successfully used evolution and mutt at the same
> time with both mbox and maildir mailboxes.

sylpheed also plays nice with mutt on maildirs and mbox
so maybe a sylpheed-evolution-mutt trio would provide enough backup MUAs?

Arjan
<abouter>

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