Re: combo GUI/text mail client
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:58:46PM -1000, Joseph Dane wrote:
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| Here's what I'd like to have: a mail client that I can access via a
| nice, flashy GUI when I'm sitting at my desk, or via a simple
| text-mode interface when I'm connecting remotely.
|
| Actually, it's my wife I'm primarily thinking about. She uses our
| computer at home (Debian, natch) to read/send mail using Netscape.
| She also occasionally connects from her parents' house, or from work
| using ssh and getting a simple shell (text) interface. Right now, she
| uses pine for this, but this sucks because:
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| * netscape slurps up all read mail into its own 'nsmail' directory,
| so she can only read new mail
|
| * netscape and pine don't (can't?) share addressbooks, so they either
| get out of sync, or require more attention than one would like to
| offer them
Balsa is a GNOME-based GUI MUA, and it uses the GNOME addressbook for
it's addresses (a VCard (ascii) format you can manipulate gcard). I
used balsa for a while, but it doesn't have mailing list support.
I'm now very happy with mutt. I think it wouldn't be too hard to
create a python/perl script to update mutt's address book from gcard's
address book. Full VCard support isn't necessary, just the names and
addresses.
My solution has been to have 2 MUAs -- one gui and one ncurses, until
I completely converted to mutt a few months back.
-D
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