16 Jan
2004
16 Jan
'04
10:04 a.m.
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:12:43PM +0100, Eric Dondelinger wrote:
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?
See also http://packages.debian.org/stable/virtual/imap-client
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/virtual/imap-client
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. 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.
--
Lionel