Date: 08 Oct 2001 16:00:08 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com> To: lucas@slb.to Cc: , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PIM's Message-ID: <86669qrxc7.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> In-Reply-To: <20011008095155.B47199@comp04.prc.uic.edu> References: <20011008095155.B47199@comp04.prc.uic.edu>
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Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to> 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 <wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com> 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
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