16 Jan
2004
16 Jan
'04
10:29 a.m.
Hi Lionel,
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
I'll have to go through these... thanks for the links.
Good to know, I wasn't even aware of their IMAP capabilities. I'll
definitely check out especially mutt, as I do very much like this
client.
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:12:43PM +0100, Eric
Dondelinger wrote:
LOL, actually it was more meant to signify $DEITY than any actual
$Real_Living_Person ;-)
praise the Lord, sendar is back online :-)
Although we all like our president a lot, calling him "the Lord" is
IMHO exaggerated. >:-) 2nd question:
can someone recommend a good IMAP GUI client
it's about my work mailbox (which is huge).
So, you definitely want a *real* IMAP client, not a POP client hacked
to babble IMAP [1]. Oh ye, oh ye. You are in for a ride.
[1] http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/client-commandments.txt
http://dovecot.procontrol.fi/imap-client-coding-howto.html A
textmode-client might be acceptable, though, and could actually
really be useful, as long as I can connect to that external server
(i.e. no download to /var/spool/mail/).
Mutt and Pine come to mind. Mutt had IMAP problems in the past, but it
seems to *work* now. I don't know about performance, never really
accessed huge mailbox over small link / email with big attachments.
Pine was built with IMAP in mind, I think, so should have quite a
decent IMAP implementation. Non-free, though. Have you tried evolution?
Not yet - well, actually, I did a long time ago, and wasn't impressed
(especially performance-wise), but I was told that there was quite
some evolution (pun intended) and it's gotten better... so I'll test
(apt-getting right now).
See also
http://packages.debian.org/stable/virtual/imap-client
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/virtual/imap-client
Will do.
And I'm going to totally blow my reputation by
mentioning
Mulberry. Non-free, not open source, it is a proprietary per-seat
licensing, source code unavailable program.
That's indeed quite unexpected coming from you ;-)
It is GUI,
you can try it
before you buy, and it is built specifically for IMAP. Its authors
claim it has an outstanding IMAP implementation. The rest is of more
meager quality: Users report some more-or-less random crashes, and its
UI is *very* different from "usual" mail clients. Partly because it
closely follows the IMAP model [1], partly for other reasons.
[1] Which, for an IMAP-centred client is arguably a good thing.
Hmm, will check, unless I get happy before with one of the FOSS
variants.
btw, I tried mozilla 1.6 just a few minutes ago as I read on /. that
it supposedly solves some IMAP problems, but it still doesn't list
all of my folders :-/
Also, along with j2ee 1.4.2, it doesn't properly open the applets
of the Domino web interface :-/
Good thing I've got a very nice working installation of Gentoo on
the laptop ;-) My next desktop install will be something more recent
of Debian, not stable.
Greetings & thanks, Eric