[wellylug] Best e-mail client

[sljudd at paradise.net.nz]

Quoting Volker Kuhlmann <list0570 at paradise.net.nz>:

> No lack of features? Are you joking? Last time I looked (ok a while
> ago) it couldn't do File->Open and simply display an mbox folder
> anywhere on disk (so I simply immediately deleted it), it could
> assentially only handle pop/imap folders, every mailbox had to be
> defined first (another clean kill), and support for anything else but
> RedCrap was essentially non-existing.

Not at my Linux desktop right now, but for a fact it can import mbox files.

> > It also keeps its folders in standard mbox format, allowing for easy
> 
> Does it? Sure about that?

Yes. Very sure. So sure that I have my private Bayesian spam filter project
pointing directly at my Evolution-managed mbox files, using both Perl and Python
mbox modules. No problems.

What Evolution does is keep its own index files containing pointers into the
mbox files.

You can also use maildir if you prefer. (And that other format whose name I
can't remember right now).

<snip> 

> I doubt there's much point in doing that, if any of it was any good,
> we'd have heard of it by now. There may be the odd one which has one
> outstanding feature, but on the whole it remains unusable.

Who knows? I'd never heard of mutt until a friend introduced me a couple of
years ago...
 
> Sure, my choice for command line too. But don't forget the quote from
> its web page: "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." 10 out
> of 10 for being realistic. There are quite a few things which suck.

Indeed. But there's no harm in looking for the least sucky.

Incidentally, BBEdit used to have the slogan "It doesn't suck" - and for me at
least, it didn't. BBEdit is the Emacs of the MacOS, ie God's Own Text Editor.

But that was on another host, and besides the process is dead.

stephen

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