Evolution sucks??

[Bill Sconce]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:57:27 -0500
"Michael ODonnell" <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> wrote:

> > I'm not sure exactly what MH is
> 
> MH (and NMH - the total rewrite, drop-in replacement "New MH")
> is a mail-handling package distinguished by its use of the
> filesystem (as opposed to a single flat file or some sort of
> DB) for the basic message store.  Your hierarchy of "folders"
> is actually a hierarchy of directories, with each message a
> file in one of those directories.  
> ... you never lose the ability to employ standard UNIX tools
> like grep/sed/awk to process your message store in ways that 
> are sometimes hard or impossible with other approaches.
> ... whenever I have to use anything else I'm frustrated by how
> much control I've lost...



+1 for MH format, the ability to grep, etc.

+1 for Sylpheed.  (Er, Sylpheed-Claws, now known as Claws Mail).
Sylpheed/Sylpheed-Claws/Claws Mail all use MH format.  They do
a bunch of other things nicely too.  One favorite: marking
messages with colors.  Worth a presentation some LUG meeting!

-Bill

Hmmm...
  +0.5 additional for MH.  the fact that MH folders are directories
makes using e.g. rsync for backup a LOT easier.  Different folders
can be treated differently, and all rules can be written using normal
scripting.  (GUIs suck for the kind of granular control you need
for tasks such as rsyncing various folders to different remote stores.)


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