I know this is three months old, but I happened to spy it while browsing my old [SLE] folder for something else... On Monday 01 July 2002 12:53, Keith Winston wrote: [...]
True, true. KDE apps run slower, or at least start slower in any other environment besides KDE. I like all of those apps you mentioned above, but some of them are not the main apps I use. For example, I use mutt for mail and pan for news. So, my "working set" of apps is somewhat different than yours and that makes the tradeoffs different.
Currently, I use KMail (and before that, Evolution), which deals directly with my ISP to receive and send mail (over ADSL). If I were to switch to something like mutt, I assume that I would need something additional to actually retrieve my mail from the ISP and dump it on my local machine where mutt could find it. Similarly, I would need an additional application to pluck my sent mutt-mail from my outbox directory and pass it on to the ISP... Are those correct assumptions? Would the respective apps be Fetchmail for incoming and Sendmail or Procmail for outgoing? I previously had just one account, but I now have multiple accounts at my ISP, plus a couple of "free" and web-based accounts, and I'd like to automate the harvesting... maybe pick up the wife's mail and store it locally, as well. I've been using pop3 for the ISP mail, but they've started supporting IMAP recently, so that's an option, as well. Thoughts? Suggestions? Further reading? I want to try to do the Linux/UNIX thing and use just standard building blocks for the e-mail tasks, rather than relying on somebody's "branded" utilities. At least, that's what I think I want until I discover what a pain-in-the-ass it is that I'm really inviting... :-) Thanks for your time, /kevin