Uses for Cygwin/XFree86
luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au
luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au
Mon Oct 21 21:14:00 GMT 2002
On 21 Oct, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Would that mail client be Sylpheed?
>
> I looked into it and generally liked what I saw, but the fact that it uses
> MH style message storage (one file per message!!) led me to decide I could
> not switch to it. That's far to much storage overhead for me to tolerate
> since I keep very large archives of the many mailing lists to which I
> subscribe.
Actually, it's Postilion (http://www.postilion.org/), which is based on
the Nextstep mail program (Mail.app).
Problems with Postilion:
1) Nic Bernstein isn't actively developing it anymore - I think he may
have decided that GNUMail would be a better long term area to devote
his efforts. (GNUMail is based on GNUstep, and works. Big
mailboxes require a lot of memory, though, currently.)
2) Postilion requires Tk/Tcl for the GUI, and a few other libraries, so
it's not a complete piece of cake to compile and install. It can
handle 100MB mail folders, though it starts getting very slow when
the messages are in the 10 - 20 thousand range, IIRC.
> If it's some other mail client, I'd like to hear about it, because I'm
> looking to trade up from Eudora, but the only feature that it's missing
> (apart from it's limited platform support) is message threading based on
> message IDs (not merely subject headers). Everything else about it is
> pretty good, especially it's searching and filtering capabilties
Postilion allows mailboxes to be presented as sorted by date, in
arrival order (mbox order), by subject, subject-by-date (which is
*similar* to threading), by sender, reverse date, etc.
It's also very extensible in editing messages being composed and
operations on messages in mailboxes.
I tried sylpheed maybe 6 months ago, but it didn't do enough (then).
I think I have my hopes pinned on GNUMail, for the future.
luke
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