GUI replacement for mutt

[Jeffrey F. Bloss]

Felix 'buebo' Kakrow wrote:

> Am Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:12:20 -0400
> schrieb "Jeffrey F. Bloss" <jbloss at tampabay.rr.com>:
> 
> > My personal favorite is Claws-Mail. 
> 
> As of now I second that :)

Super! :)

> At the time of the original post I had getmail, procmail, spamprobe
> (etc.) set up on my desktop/workstation and the problem was that most
> mail-clients wouldn't really work with this setup. at least not
> without some mayor annoyances. 

This should all work seamlessly with Claws-Mail, even "training" your
spam filters via CM actions (if spamprobe works that way).

> Now I just moved everything to my NetBSD server and installed
> Courier-Imap on it. This seems to be the best possible solution at the
> moment, since most MUAs do IMAP and this way I'm free to mess around
> without having to worry about Maildir, Procmail, Spamprobe and
> whatever else.

Indeed. If you're testing mail clients IMAP is the way to go. I almost
never access mail from anywhere but my laptop, so I use SSL versions of
the "traditional" mail protocols, but I too have IMAP capabilities and
use them when testing other clients. 

And a home mail server using your ISP account as a smart host, accessed
securely, prevents your having to look at whatever abomination your ISP
calls their "webmail interface". ;)

> 
> I tried Evolution but it just feels to bloated for me since my
> calendar is still on paper and my to-do list lives inside my head. The

We agree on a lot. I still use a paper calendar, and sticky notes for
to-do lists so I can selectively forget things. ;)

> Mail-Client in itself is alright, but doesn't work with fortunes (at
> least not without some tinkering which I did not feel like).
> 
> Thunderbird is also okay, but for some reason runs pretty slow.
> Enigmail is very good though.

Yes. The Enigmail plugin is quite mature. Firefox would be my third
choice (behind Mutt), but I tend to shy away from *any* mail client
that generates HTML mail even if you can disable it. Call me old school
of you want, because that's what I am. :)

> 
> The best one so far is imho Claws-Mail. It has literally tons of
> useful options, does good GnuPG and S/MIME and fits very well into
> Gnome and XFCE. The only downside is the address book, which lacks an
> integration into gnome, a plug-in for that would be great.

Agreed. I believe this topic has come up a couple times on the
Claws-Mail list. The plugins are developed and maintained by third
parties to a large extent, so feel free to code one up and submit it.

<grinning>

Glad you like Claws-Mail. I've used a ton of clients over the years,
and in my opinion it's not only one of the best in a "technical" sense,
the author and the small "community" are just a good group of people. 

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