From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RgfvD-0000Sz-FG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:07:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8B1721C110; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:06:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com (mail-ww0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 304ABE0654 for ; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:03:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbdt12 with SMTP id dt12so18930129wgb.4 for ; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:03:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=aziuVBXZvAjV9HE1lDxa/9ETBhlSilhVne8cRbq4090=; b=xQBmcwAs87FPzyRyKBgiFwNuiBesIt7RGMRmm+VU64qc/ecwu0KfXQfc44RPJ70opt yLbNArqMGCCsaAz6+6vzXmI/N2P6vNt7YBY5PWjC+5WwBmxCknYOfTJLOkxkjgJOVzqO h18ReCTpLQ5/OMXC+lBbFhi2yvCi6raWKqJfY= Received: by 10.216.133.19 with SMTP id p19mr27319080wei.0.1325264616438; Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:03:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from rohan.example.com (196-215-2-107.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.2.107]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm40206242wby.3.2011.12.30.09.03.34 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:03:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:03:19 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The mess that's called KDEPIM 4.7 ... Message-ID: <20111230190319.307f6031@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: <4EFDB669.6090903@wonkology.org> References: <201112290043.58106.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4EFDB669.6090903@wonkology.org> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9f7dc450-7002-4e89-8d02-b70b7596241e X-Archives-Hash: bfbac72ea7182e9237aade9696ceec97 On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:02:33 +0100 Alex Schuster wrote: > > The only thing that's keeping me from mutt is the zillion shortcut > > commands that I need to learn ... old dog/new tricks and all that. > > Claws is okay, except that it does not work with maildirs, the is some > import script or something to convert this to mbox format. > Thunderbird also is a decent mail program. I run an imap server (dovecot) locally to deal with that. It knows what regular maildirs are and uses them. The main benefit is when changing mail clients, NO migration is needed. Just point the new client at localhost:143, and voila! -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com