[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] XimianT

[MadHat]

At 12:38 AM 12/13/2001 -0600, Aaron Goldblatt wrote:
> > client that can work more like Eudora (the only reason I still use that
>
>The only clients I've run into that do this are KMail (part of
>kdenetwork), which has filtering, and Balsa, which doesn't unless you
>compile it in.  Balsa is designed for Gnome.
>
>KDE's disadvantage for me was that it didn't support Maildir, a format I
>prefer.  Balsa speaks Maildir, but doesn't filter (but has a direct hook
>for procmail, so you don't have to have your MTA call it; Balsa can call
>it when you pop the mail in) natively yet, and the code is experimental.
>
>I also had a number of crashes with Balsa that eventually drove me to
>mutt.  Most significantly, I couldn't send mail without putting it in the
>outbound queue (like Eudora's send later setting), and then I had to exit
>and restart Balsa before I could actually send.  If I sent immediately,
>Balsa segfaulted and the message was lost.  If I queued and then sent
>before I exited and restarted, Balsa segfaulted, didn't send, but didn't
>lose the message.  This was on the current version 1.2.3, and the bugzilla
>report came back saying to upgrade to 1.2.3.  There was also a message
>display symptom in the message index associated with this issue.
>
>Kmail wasn't especially reliable either, but it was more stable than Balsa
>ever hoped to be.

kmail seems to be missing some finishing touches to where it just doesn't 
feel right, and doesn't behave the way I expect, but I don't remember why.

I tried balsa as well and had almost no luck.  The look was good, but the 
functionality was bad.

I am trying to install  Ximian now.  I started last night and it kept 
segfaulting on the install.  I am trying on another box today.  It has to 
un-install kdepim  which should only break a few apps, like the organizer, 
kmail and kpilot as far as I know, but I didn't get a reason for needing to 
uninstall.  I'll report back on the progress today.

My favorite mail client so far is still mutt, but I need better/easier 
filtering and mailbox management.

>ag.
>
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