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Mick wrote: |
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> On Friday 30 Dec 2011 13:02:33 Alex Schuster wrote: |
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>> Mick writes: |
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>>> For now I have masked KDEPIM 4.7 on all of my remaining boxen. This is |
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>>> too messy to have to fix more than once, if I can fix it at all that is! |
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>>> The only thing that's keeping me from mutt is the zillion shortcut |
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>>> commands that I need to learn ... old dog/new tricks and all that. |
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>> Claws is okay, except that it does not work with maildirs, the is some |
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>> import script or something to convert this to mbox format. |
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>> Thunderbird also is a decent mail program. |
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> I have tried Claws (although I did not like mbox) and found myself cursing |
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> after every other key press. I also tried T'bird and found it better than |
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> Claws, but worse than Kmail. It's not just keyboard short cuts, but also how |
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> it integrates with the address book, pgp and s/mime, etc. |
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> I started looking into getting used to mutt again. Not sure how I can modify |
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> its shortcuts, because some them are not intuitive enough for me and some are |
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> duplicated/redundant. |
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On a Windows box where I need to be conscientious about memory usage, |
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I've started using Seamonkey instead of Thunderbird+Chrome. If you can |
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find Thunderbird tolerable, Seamonkey isn't far off. The browser side |
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got some long-needed TLC earlier this year with the release of 2.5, so |
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it's functional on the modern Internet. It still needs more work[1], but |
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it handles most of my web needs, now. |
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I haven't tried it on Gentoo yet, and I don't know if or when I will; |
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none of my Gentoo boxes (four out of eight! Whee!) are low on memory yet. |
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It also comes with an "address book" component that's somehow viewed on |
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the same tier as its browser, email, calendar and IRC client |
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component[2]...I'd guess it's worth a try, at least. |
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[1] It's got some issues with blocking the UI thread on things that |
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should be background operations, and it has some weird glitches when I |
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load up GMail--which I only do for my address book there... |
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[2] Seamonkey is the descendant of the old Mozilla suite. The IRC client |
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is still called "Chatzilla". Perhaps there's a way to turn off the |
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components you don't need in the ebuild. |
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