[Tfug] Address books

[Sam Hart]

I just want to add something to this excellent list:

* On 03-11-18, Anthony Steckman wrote:

> 
> My experience with a few graphical clients:
> 
> kmail -- gui was weird, kind of old-fashioned looking; the program 
> itself lacked many of the features available in other graphical (even 
> command line) clients.

I used to use Kmail all the time, but found it rather lacking if you have 
large mailboxes. In fact, there used to be a really nasty bug in Kmail 
that would hose your mailboxes if they grew past a certain size (tho, that 
was years ago, I'm sure it's fixed now)

> evolution -- very nice... if you like MS Outlook; if not, then... not; 
> overall a very robust client that has worked very well when i have used 
> it; the worst bugs i've encountered always had to do with accessing 
> large volumes of e-mail from an IMAP server.

However, if you have your large volumes of email in mailboxes on the local 
machine, evo actually does a better job of parsing them than Pine or Mutt 
(in my experience). For people with ghastly-big boxes, evo is perfect.

evo also has an excellent address book app that can link with Palm PDAs 
(tho, I only tried it once as a proof of concept).

> mozilla mail -- using it now; probably the best, most user-friendly 
> experience i've had with an e-mail client under Linux; does everything i 
> want it to, and usually pretty well; only drawback: if you update 
> aggressively you will sometimes encounter *extremely* broken builds.

I have personally had a lot of bad experience with Mozilla Mail, but I'll 
admit all of my complaints have to do with performance with very large 
mailboxes (hmmm, anyone sensing a pattern here?). Mozilla Mail will grind 
to a crawl if you have multiple large mboxes. Otherwise, as far as GUI 
mailers are concerned, it's pretty nice. Plus, it has a rather keen 
address book (returning to what the original poster wanted).

> I like PINE a lot, though. Reading this thread makes me want to set it 
> up again.

It's hard to beat the ability to just SSH into a machine and manage your 
mail without any graphical connection.

I just wish someone would do what the Nano guys did with Pico, except this 
time with Pine, so that the legal and bug updating issues wouldn't be so 
murky.

-- 
Sam Hart
University/Work addr. <hart at physics.arizona.edu>
Personal addr. <criswell at geekcomix.com>
Alternative <criswell at tux4kids.net>
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