[ubuntu-in] MUAs Was:Ubuntu under XP

[Jasbir Khehra]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Manish Sinha <mail at manishsinha.net> wrote:
> My bad experience with mail client:
> Well, I use Thunderbird and it too takes a long time for login,checking
> server capabilities and downloading headers. Sometimes I feel as I would
> sleep. If I create a label with filter to redirect mail with *Archive It*
> option in Gmail, it is interpreted as a folder in mail client. To add insult
> to injury, Thunderbird just fetches mail for the Inbox and not for mails
> that have been archived and set the label. I have to click on those folder
> icons to fetch the mail.
> I guess no mail client is perfect. Hope Mutt works better in this case.

You need to use IMAP protocol to be able to fetch mails from folders
inside a mailbox. Plus configure which folders you want to subscribe
to. I extensively use Gmail Filters with IMAP using Claws Mail as my
MUA. Claws Mail is a fork of Slypheed, its light, fast and highly
configurable , GTK based.
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> In Gmail, I simply goto last line using Ctrl+End and then type my reply over
> there, but is time consuming in web based clients.
Yeah thats what I do. It helps if you use Plain Text.

HTH,
Jasbir