evolution and thunderbird

[Peter N. Spotts]

On Thu, 18 May 2006 22:48:26 +1000
ruscook <ruscook_oz at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> Well everyone's convinced me to look for another package to see if
> there's someing as snappy, more feature rich, and less buggy than
> Evo :-). 
> 
> I tried Sylpheed but it doesn't (or I couldn't get it to) show HTML
> and images in messages.
> 
> So I've installed KMail under gnome. At first I tried Kontact, but
> the toolbar icons didn't come across properly, so I did a total
> remove of that and a reinstall of KMail and it seems to have fixed
> the icons. So now trying Kmail and Bogofilter.
> 
> We'll see how it goes.
> 
> On Thursday 18 May 2006 22:28, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 14:08 +0200, kuzum at mebias.org wrote:
> > > Finally the addressbook-export script did not work in my case.
> >
> > That's been a serious problem I agree. That's why I stayed away
> > from it on principle - when di you have that address-book problem?
> >
> > Duncan
> 

Sypheed (I use Sylpheed-Claws) does the html-message drill via a plugin
that uses Dillo as its browser. Usually this plug-in is part of the
basic package (I install from source, and it compiles automatically).
So perhaps all you need to do is install Dillo and activate the p
lug-in from within SC. I think it also can use gtkhtml. It's not as
clean as the html rendering in Thunderbird; but I've found it more
flexible in a number of other little ways such that the somewhat
primitive html rendering is much less an issue for me. And under
preferences, you can set html messages to appear as text. So you
still get the information and links. Anyway, try Sylpheed-Claws with
Dillo and see if that comes closer to meeting your needs...

Best,

Pete
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