From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 8 8: 1:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.ehsrealtime.com [213.52.146.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F157937B405 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 08:01:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pan.ehsrealtime.com ([213.52.146.196]) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15qbuR-0000YJ-01; Mon, 08 Oct 2001 16:01:35 +0100 Received: from waynep by pan.ehsrealtime.com with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15qbt3-0000Wb-00; Mon, 08 Oct 2001 16:00:09 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe To: lucas@slb.to Cc: , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PIM's References: <20011008095155.B47199@comp04.prc.uic.edu> Reply-To: wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com Date: 08 Oct 2001 16:00:08 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20011008095155.B47199@comp04.prc.uic.edu> Message-ID: <86669qrxc7.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Lucas Bergman writes: > > User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) > > /me thinks, "Maybe he knows some elisp." So very, very, very little :) > M-x diary :) That's not a bad idea... Then write a function into nnmail-split that pumps mail through lisp function to see if it's an appointment and if it is, add it to the diary... hmmm, this has potential. > Seriously, all the Unix PIMs I've seen are Outlook clones, written > with drool-proof electrons, all. They're good for people trying to > duplicate their Windows installations on top of Unix, but they don't Yeah, I have noticed this. > have the flexibility Unix fans expect. In particular, most lock you > into a particular mail client. (If you don't mind CORBA and GNOME, > I think Evolution is built on an abstract framework, but I don't > know of anything built on that framework other than Evolution > itself.) I think even evolution suffers from that kind of mentality. I know that the plugin functionality with Corba is a pain to code. Requires more brains than I have (but then, so do most things) :) Thanks for the idea though. -- Wayne Pascoe Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. - Yeats To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message