Re: GUI to share mailboxes with mutt
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:07:12AM -0600, Michael Herman wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:31:31AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> >I know it's probably sacrilege but I'm sure there are people here who
> >do such things - what's a good GUI MUA which will happily share a
> >mailbox hierarchy with mutt? Absolutely ideal would be one that has
> >both Linux and Windows versions but all I really need is a Linux one.
> >
>
> Since the mailboxes are in standard formats, any MUA that can also read the
> mailboxes should work fine. Evolution and Sylpheed are two I have tried in
> the past.
>
Yes, but not all Linux/Unix MUAs do read standard mailbox format, e.g.
Netscape and Mozilla don't. If Mozilla did read standard mbox it
would be my answer as I use it as my browser at the moment but there's
no way it's going to 'mix' with mutt eaily.
Evolution is probably a bit to much of the kitchen sink, sylpheed may
be a good one to look at, I've seen other favourable comments about
it.
> There may be some issues sharing mbox type mailboxes with regards to flags.
> Maildir may be a better format if you are going to have both MUAs open at
> the
> same time and accessing the same mailbox.
>
No I'm not aiming to do that, not on purpose at least.
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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxx)