From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 11 14:14:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 365EA37B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 14:14:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 66336 invoked by uid 100); 11 Mar 2001 22:14:51 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15019.63707.84344.642380@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 16:14:51 -0600 To: Greg Lehey Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best x11 mua ? In-Reply-To: <69374208@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey types: > [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > >> i search a very good mua for freebsd (X11), i like outlook express under > >> win2K, and i want an equivalent under freebsd + X11; i know postilion, but > >> is there another (stable, beautifull, filters, multiple pop3/smtp, etc > >> ...). I have tried spruce but it crashed (core dump), balsa need gnome, > >> etc... kmail perhaps ? but i have heard that there was problem with kde 2.1 > > Kiltdown found the lines too long and wrapped like this: [removed] > I assert that it should have done it like this: > >>> i search a very good mua for freebsd (X11), i like outlook express > >>> under win2K, and i want an equivalent under freebsd + X11; i know > >>> postilion, but is there another (stable, beautifull, filters, > >>> multiple pop3/smtp, etc ...). I have tried spruce but it crashed > >>> (core dump), balsa need gnome, etc... kmail perhaps ? but i have > >>> heard that there was problem with kde 2.1 Ok, I've got a question about that one. It would seem that the prohibition about mailers automatically wrapping text should apply to quoted text as well, for much the same reason - you could potentially lose information in the process. Here, you seem to be implying that kiltdown ("it") should have done just that. Is that really the case? Thanx,