[TriLUG] Mail client

[tomed at bellsouth.net]

If you like a text editor interface, emacs has great email support.

Tom Ed

At Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:10:49 -0400,
<OlsonE at aosa.army.mil> wrote:
> 
> All -- thanks for the help! The other client I was looking at was
> slypheed?
> 
> I think I'll test out evolution again, just for a while (and leave the
> messages on my mailbox instead of downloading them). Once I feel
> comfortable, I'll pull them off the server into my mbox.
> 
> I might ditch the idea of using Evolution for Exchange, and check my
> e-mail via OWA (once I'm connected to the VPN).
> 
> /eric
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of jonc at nc.rr.com
> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 11:08 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Mail client
> 
> I had a problem with an odd version of Evolution once - but all I had to
> do was delete the index files and it auto-reindexed the mbox. I updated
> to the next version and that problem went away.
> 
> Having that problem - and finding that it was so easy to recover made me
> a big fan of Evolution. I was very heartened to find that mboxes were a
> standard format, and all Evolution did was add a layer of indexing in
> front of that.
> 
> Jon
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Magnus <magnus at trilug.org>
> Date: Sunday, March 25, 2007 4:45 pm
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Mail client
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
> 
> > jonc at nc.rr.com wrote:
> > > Other than that, Evolution rocks! 
> > Caveat: make frequent backups.  I've been burnt twice by Evolution 
> > going schizo on me.
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