GUI mail client for Linux/Unix mbox delivery (i.e. not POP3)
Are there any GUI mail clients that read Linux/Unix mailbox file mail delivery? I use mutt for most of my mail reading but now that I can do all my mail reading on my home machine it would occasionally be useful to read my mail with a GUI mail reader (e.g. for the very occasional HTML mail that says something useful with the HTML, and/or to look at attached pictures). All the GUI clients I have tried in days gone by have assumed mail comes from a POP3 server and/or munge the local mail spool with specialised indexes etc. that break it for other (better behaved) clients. It doesn't even have to be a Linux program as my Win2k machine has access to the mail on the Linux box. -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 03:47:12PM +0100, Tim Green wrote:
On 5/24/05, Chris Green <chris@areti.co.uk> wrote:
Are there any GUI mail clients that read Linux/Unix mailbox file mail delivery?
Mozilla and Thunderbird do - they supply a script-y thing to get the email. I've forgotten the name it.
Netscape used to but I didn't know Mozilla/Thunderbird did, do they copy the mail to their own area or can one just read it? I'll go and take a look at Thunderbid anyway. -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
Are there any GUI mail clients that read Linux/Unix mailbox file mail delivery? I use mutt for most of my mail reading but now that I can do all my mail reading on my home machine it would occasionally be useful to read my mail with a GUI mail reader (e.g. for the very occasional HTML mail that says something useful with the HTML, and/or to look at attached pictures). I've been using KMail for some time now. It supports local mailbox, maildir mailbox and the usual IMAP and POP. With the local mail box, it supports variations on filelocking, including mutt types.
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On Tue, 24 May 2005 16:36:16 +0100 Stuart Bailey <stuart@linusoft.co.uk> wrote:
Are there any GUI mail clients that read Linux/Unix mailbox file mail delivery? I use mutt for most of my mail reading but now that I can do all my mail reading on my home machine it would occasionally be useful to read my mail with a GUI mail reader (e.g. for the very occasional HTML mail that says something useful with the HTML, and/or to look at attached pictures). I've been using KMail for some time now. It supports local mailbox, maildir mailbox and the usual IMAP and POP. With the local mail box, it supports variations on filelocking, including mutt types.
Stuart
I have been using sylpheed for years now its 1.04 and I have used since early .7 releases at least. Its now a capable client thats fast and very stable, it does not appear to memory leak like evolution (work uses exchange calendering) all it all I think it matches your requirements It supports local mailbox, maildir mailbox and the usual IMAP and POP3. Secured IMAP and secured POP3, though not exchange calendering. Sylpheed claws has integration with clam and spam assassin and stuff that I cant be bothered to look at. Only missing thing is a spell check so I bound the external editor to aspell. Regards Owen
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Green <chris@areti.co.uk> wrote:
All the GUI clients I have tried in days gone by have assumed mail comes from a POP3 server and/or munge the local mail spool with specialised indexes etc. that break it for other (better behaved) clients.
Most of the GUI clients will also talk IMAP, I'd suggest setting up a local imap server instead, something like Dovecot, and configure it to use the right boxes. Should be simple enough to do, and then you don't have to worry about the format of the mail on the machine, let the IMAP server handle that instead. I tend to use mutt for all my home e-mail though, and I haven't had a need for a graphical e-mail client for years, but JIC I have got dovecot setup on the laptop ready to sort me out in the event that I really do need a graphical client. Thanks, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCk08OEh8oWxevnjQRAtj9AJ0VECGJkocuFYuF4yPtbzd1P+hgagCgmExi Ip/G2q6LJ0MWS//ccn1teoY= =G+RM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 04:58:06PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
Chris Green <chris@areti.co.uk> wrote:
All the GUI clients I have tried in days gone by have assumed mail comes from a POP3 server and/or munge the local mail spool with specialised indexes etc. that break it for other (better behaved) clients.
Most of the GUI clients will also talk IMAP, I'd suggest setting up a local imap server instead, something like Dovecot, and configure it to use the right boxes. Should be simple enough to do, and then you don't have to worry about the format of the mail on the machine, let the IMAP server handle that instead.
I tend to use mutt for all my home e-mail though, and I haven't had a need for a graphical e-mail client for years, but JIC I have got dovecot setup on the laptop ready to sort me out in the event that I really do need a graphical client.
That's a good point, in fact I think I'd realised I could do that already. I have an IMAP server running so it'r trivial to do. -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 15:43 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
Are there any GUI mail clients that read Linux/Unix mailbox file mail delivery? I use mutt for most of my mail reading but now that I can do all my mail reading on my home machine it would occasionally be useful to read my mail with a GUI mail reader (e.g. for the very occasional HTML mail that says something useful with the HTML, and/or to look at attached pictures).
All the GUI clients I have tried in days gone by have assumed mail comes from a POP3 server and/or munge the local mail spool with specialised indexes etc. that break it for other (better behaved) clients.
It doesn't even have to be a Linux program as my Win2k machine has access to the mail on the Linux box.
Since you are going to be running an IMAP server for your Squirrel webmail why not use an IMAP client? Many clients support IMAP, although not all do it very well (Sylpheed for example is very poor - although I'll no doubt get shot down for that comment by fans, I usually do!). Mozilla/Thunderbird are what I've used most in the IMAP area (including Netscape which is where I started with IMAP in the mid 90s or thereabouts), and I'm currently using Evolution, which is quite nice, but a monster of an application requiring 80M of download on Debian if you don't have Gnome installed (well it was on my system), it also has a raft of processes running in the background. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/
On 24-May-05 Chris Green wrote:
Are there any GUI mail clients that read Linux/Unix mailbox file mail delivery? I use mutt for most of my mail reading but now that I can do all my mail reading on my home machine it would occasionally be useful to read my mail with a GUI mail reader (e.g. for the very occasional HTML mail that says something useful with the HTML, and/or to look at attached pictures).
All the GUI clients I have tried in days gone by have assumed mail comes from a POP3 server and/or munge the local mail spool with specialised indexes etc. that break it for other (better behaved) clients.
It doesn't even have to be a Linux program as my Win2k machine has access to the mail on the Linux box.
Hi Chris, Not entirely sure that I understand your question exactly, but I think the email client I use (XFMail) might do what you're looking for. It can deal with a variety of mbox formats: Unix A file with several messages; each message begins with MBOX: "From <followed by sender's address and valid date>", separated from the next message by a blank line. [local access] MH: Each message is a separate file (named with a number) in some folder (= directory) [local access]. This is XFMail's standard local storage format. IMAP: You probably know more about this than I do since I don't use it! [remote access] Mail retrieval is by one of Spool: Local spool file (Unix MBOX) POP: Remote POP server IMAP: Remote IMAP server You can set up as many accounts of these types as you like. Also, you can copy/move mails from one mbox to another with a different format. This can have unexpected uses -- for instance, you can export from MS Outlook to Unix MBOX, and thereby transfer Windows mail to Linux and vice versa. XFMail (based on XForms libs) does mail display, editing, and composing, all in new windows, so you can have several windows open for reading at a time while editing or conmposing in another. You can edit and compose several messages at the same time (each in its own window). You can configure how it handles MIME types, and add new ones. If you get an HTML mail, this will appear as an HTML attachment which you can then open (again in a separate window) in whatever browser you like. It has lots of other features too! You can control what it does by point&click or by "shortcut" key strokes. The version I use is now ancient (1998, though I was using it also in earlier versions), and there have been one or two later versions. It then lapsed (around 1999/2000), and was to be re-incarnated as Archimedes by Chris Freeze and others (involving moving from XFroms to Gtk). This project still seems to be taking its time for completion. However, it seems that fairly recent versions of XFMail are available at Chris Freeze's site on http://www.cfreeze.com/xfmail/ where there are binaries for (e.g.) up to Red Hat 9, and source code, the "current" directory being dated 2005. Some info about Archimedes can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/archimedes/ but I don't know when anything was last done with it. You may find that standard distributions of Linux (e.g. red Hat, SuSE, Debian) come with XFMail, or have binaries available for download. Hoping this helps, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 24-May-05 Time: 16:36:26 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 07:47:05PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: [big snip]
You may find that standard distributions of Linux (e.g. red Hat, SuSE, Debian) come with XFMail, or have binaries available for download.
Thanks, I remember looking at XFMail many moons ago when I was looking for a GUI client to use full time. It didn't cut it for me then but it might well be what I need as an 'occasional' GUI client so thanks for reminding me about it. -- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
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