Re: [Sheflug] Evolution

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

> I think the name is very apt, it is just a genetically mutated version
> of Outlook.

You make that sound like a bad thing...

> Sadly though It's far from my ideal MUA. It seems to cater for the
> people that haven't embraced procmail.

Okay, I won't tell you I use a procmail/vFilter combination on my mail :-)

 > 1. Likes the fact that I use procmail to sort my mail.
> 2. Allows me to assign different identities to different mailboxes. (I
> collect from multiple pop accounts and like my replies to appear as
> though they came from the address they were sent to)
> 3. Has good integration with GPG and GPA. (IE instead of just signing
> verifying decrypting, allows me to view key rings and fetch keys)
> 4. Has support for HTML mail (Sad but a necessity)
> 5. Will show me all of the mail headers

And even though Evolution does all of this, you still don't like it? Okay,
you don't get to view and fetch keys, etc., but that's not the domain of the
MUA, that should be a separate (Bonobo?) component :) Plus, you can make a
"The Register" Executive Summary. That rocks :)

> In the meanwhile I'll go and see what mutt can do

I have to say, I really don't like mutt (even though, half the time you'll
find I post from mutt -this is from Outlook Express - not my machine - and
otherwise I use Evolution 0.8 or 0.10). Pine is much better bet in my book,
but then, what do I know.

Cheers,

Alex.

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