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hennes

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Registered: 2008-03-31

Posts: 50

Re: email client of choice?

did you use fdm+mutt with pop3 or imap?
i have been wanting to try imap with those two for a couple of months now but never really went with it. i currently use offlineimap instead of fdm

edit: ok you didnt say you used those two. maybe someone else has experience

All my accounts are pop3 and I actually did use fdm/mutt, but only for a day.

btw: fdm only took half the time that getmail needed to fetch my mails here.

Mr.Elendig

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From: The intertubes

Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,097

Re: email client of choice?

claws/mutt +1/+1

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sacamano_m82

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Registered: 2007-05-29

Posts: 167

Re: email client of choice?

did you use fdm+mutt with pop3 or imap?
i have been wanting to try imap with those two for a couple of months now but never really went with it. i currently use offlineimap instead of fdm

edit: ok you didnt say you used those two. maybe someone else has experience

I use fdm to pull mail from my Gmail a/c using IMAP. It works fine.
But I use Emacs+VM though, not mutt.

Shadowmeph

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From: West Coast Canada

Registered: 2008-05-19

Posts: 208

Re: email client of choice?

I am wondering if anyone here that uses claws has problems with internet links sometimes not showing in emails I have been getting some emails where the links don't show up is there an option or something in claws ?

sniffles

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Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 275

Re: email client of choice?

I don't use no email you insensitive clod! Why am I here then? No idea. POSTCOUNT++!!

No but seriously, when I *did* use email, mutt was my choice. A b**ch to configure, but all the good pieces of software are like that.....

Sp4rkR4t

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From: Southampton

Registered: 2008-05-06

Posts: 110

Re: email client of choice?

Claws for me.

Stythys

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From: SF Bay Area

Registered: 2008-05-18

Posts: 878

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Re: email client of choice?

++claws

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Onyros

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From: Lisbon, Portugal

Registered: 2007-10-11

Posts: 307

Re: email client of choice?

Hehe, Claws is undoubtfully the most popular around here (and I'll include my machines there).

I also use Mutt, which is my favourite. And that would be all I'd ever use if only people understood email = text.

Anyone else had problems with Gmail's SMTP lately? I had to change from port 465 to 587 to make it work again (msmtp AND Claws). Seems like I have to do that, every six months, back and forth.

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: email client of choice?

Wow claws rocks! I just installed it and man, what a relief after the bloated Evolution....

One question though: It automatically remembers my password, how can I disable this ?

EDIT: Solved, deleted the password from the account settings, now it asks every time...

Last edited by moljac024 (2008-06-05 21:49:41)

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FightRight

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-05-25

Posts: 64

Re: email client of choice?

Yep i'm trying out claws too and i have to say that this program is amazing.

Thank you for the thread.

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xaw

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From: Chapel Hill

Registered: 2007-08-09

Posts: 177

Re: email client of choice?

mutt or emacs+VM, it all depends on my mood really.

@Onyros: I've been using port 465 without any problems for the last 8 months or so with gmail's smtp

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Stalafin

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-26

Posts: 617

Re: email client of choice?

As suggested by MrElendig:

I wanted to set up OfflineIMAP to get my mail from Gmail - I was using Claws Mail to do that, but this was kinda a pain in the *ss...

So, OfflineIMAP works - but do you guys have an idea how I am supposed to read the Maildir now with Claws? In their FAQ I found the suggestion to use their Maildir plugin, but... well... there ain't no Maildir plugin.

So anyone doing the same thing?

rebugger

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 229

Re: email client of choice?

claws++ ^^ it just totally rocks

fuscia

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Registered: 2008-04-21

Posts: 398

Re: email client of choice?

kmail is the only one i really liked, but i just use gmail. one less thing i have to worry about.

ArchArael

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Registered: 2005-06-14

Posts: 504

Re: email client of choice?

I prefer Thunderbird.

It has nice extensions like Google Calendar Provider. You can read and modify your google calendars directly from Thunderbird.

Very useful.

With this simple script I can also send my mails from terminal

#!/bin/bash
USAGE="tmail usage: tmail -t TO -c CC  -s SUBJECT -b BODY -a ATTACHMENT"

while getopts "t:c:s:b:a:" options; do
  case $options in
    t ) TO=$OPTARG;;
    c ) CC=$OPTARG;;
    s ) SUBJECT=$OPTARG;;
    b ) BODY=$OPTARG;; 
    a ) ATTACHMENT=$OPTARG;; 
    \? ) echo $USAGE
         exit 1;;
    * ) echo $USAGE
         exit 1;;
  esac
done

thunderbird -compose to=\'$TO\',cc=\'$CC\',subject=\'$SUBJECT\',body=\'$BODY\',attachment=\'file:///$ATTACHMENT\'

Not bad...don't you think?

Last edited by ArchArael (2008-07-09 17:20:06)

freakcode

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From: São Paulo - Brazil

Registered: 2007-11-03

Posts: 410

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Re: email client of choice?

So... a lot of people mentioning mutt. I was always curious about it.

Anyone can point reasonable guides on how configuring and using mutt?

drag0nl0rd

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 127

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Re: email client of choice?

So... a lot of people mentioning mutt. I was always curious about it.

Anyone can point reasonable guides on how configuring and using mutt?

http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/resources/mutt/
http://spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/

WhiteMagic

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Registered: 2007-03-01

Posts: 85

Re: email client of choice?

Another pretty good read about mutt is this one: http://www.therandymon.com/content/view/42/79/

multios

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Registered: 2006-05-29

Posts: 36

Re: email client of choice?

http://www.calomel.org  (lots of interesting files)