From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 11 15:20:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AE9637B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 15:20:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 6913D6AC96; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:49:55 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:49:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best x11 mua ? Message-ID: <20010312094955.W57126@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <69374208@toto.iv> <15019.63707.84344.642380@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15019.63707.84344.642380@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 04:14:51PM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 11 March 2001 at 16:14:51 -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > 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? Well, there are two issues. I see again and again the opposite problem, the "one line per paragraph" syndrome. That needs fixing. And imagine a message which has grown a few more quotes: > > > >>>> 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 I can't see any reason not to "fix" that to: >>>>>>> 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 Should it be automatic? If it can always Do The Right Thing, yes. I assert that it's impossible to always Do The Right Thing. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message