On Tuesday 01 February 2005 05:15, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Same thing. That was the intention, anyway. But an email sent with Pine can be resent with balsa. The unfortunate thing (for me) is that Pine doesn't have a resend function, nor Mozilla, I think. I hadn't noticed about KMail, but it is so slow firing it up that I seldom use it.
Slow to start up? So what! I keep it running at all times when I'm logged in. One of the beauties of multiple virtual desktops under KDE is that I have created a nice breakdown of different (groups of) applications in each of the 8 virtual desktops I configure. I bound
Ok, but I power off every day, often more than once, so I have to start it up. And last time I started it (months ago), it took me like half an hour to get it started, because it complained about outdated indexes or something similar, and created one message box ("warning:...." press ok) for every folder, and I have a lot of them. I had to hunt and click like a hundred of those message boxes. Look, I'm answering this email with KMail. The aforesaid nuissance did not happen today. Maybe I changed some configuration to prevent that last time, maybe I updated kde, or maybe that was SuSE 8.2. Or maybe last time it wasn't so long ago, and the index is not so outdated this time. I don't remember. Good, things are improving. I still prefer Pine for most of my uses, but it is good to know that KMail is better than last time I looked at it - and you see I can use it if I want, I have it configured that way, sharing the folders wit Pine, Balsa, Mozilla... For example, I like sorting by thread, and those that had new mail first (ie, at the bottom), so that I can see easily new emails, in their threaded context. I can do that with Pine - I have no idea if I can with Kmail. On the other hand, I like KMail setting of flagging threads as important or ignored. I like that very much. But then I miss a "Go" button to go to those - perhaps I'll have to create a filter. Another one would be to see threads on which I wrote, and to which a new email has been added.
CTRL-ALT-<ArrowKey>) to navigate through the desktops. Also, I use the KDE's "Special Window Settings" to cause particular application's windows to always display initially in particular desktops. It's far better than having only the "minimize" function as a desktop organizing and management tool.
I have nine (9) desktops - but in Gnome. I'm using KMail from inside gnome ;-)
Also, the latest KMail can be kept running with a system tray icon visible but with all its windows closed (i.e., closing all the KMail windows does not cause it to quit. For that you have to issue the File -> Quit command or the tray icon's context menu's Quit command). Thus it can occupy only the tiniest amount of screen real estate (i.e., the tray icon) while still doing its work of periodically retrieving mail.
I don't use a MUA to retrieve email, that is done by fetchmail, and then sorted by procmail.
Add to that the ability of the filters to play sounds when certain mail arrives (variously important mail) and you need pay only a few dozen megabytes of resident memory to keep it running.
I prefer a simple number at the folder name listing new arrivals - and it does. I would like it even better if all email clients understood how other clients using the same folder marked emails as read or whatever. That's what I like about Balsa: that it understands Pine.
This email was started with Pine, and finished and posted with Balsa.
You're sick, twisted and mixed up. But what would we expect from a guy whose first name is Carlos and whose last name is Robinson! (I'm kidding, of course!)
X'-) And now I'm answering with KMail. I like variety :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson