[ale] Ximian Evolution (was: Re: [ale] Stupid M$ windows crappysoftware %#$^*()

[John Wells]

I use return receipts to pass the time at work.  I make sport out of
counting the number of times people tell me they didn't receive my email
when they really did, or those who have problems making tough decisions
and postpone replies for days at a time.

It's fun and addictive!  ;-)

John



On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 22:51, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> True. I guess I've always seen that stuff as being very M$ish so I have
> never used it. Even when I was using M$ on a daily basis, my emailer was
> pine through school.
> 
> It is funny, though, evolution has squawked about a message having a
> return receipt and did I want to allow it to be sent. I'm not sure if
> those things are part of the RFC's for email or not. 
> 
> When I had a job where the urgency flags were available, they were
> basically abused. 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 22:31, John Wells wrote:
> > Don't forget that it doesn't support (afaik) return receipts or message
> > priority (yet) ;-).  But I agree...overall a solid client!
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > 
> >  On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 22:17, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > > I have been a fan of Evolution for over a year now. They really did a
> > > bang-up job on making a slick, polished, well running application. I
> > > make heavy use of the incoming filters to sort my mail into appropriate
> > > folders (ale, palinux, personal, spam->trash, makemoney->trash, offers
> > > for porn->trash). If only they had usable documentation on the calendar
> > > use for groups...
> > > 
> > > And it all syncs with my palm pilot pretty well too!
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 22:14, Jordi S. Bunster wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
> > > > > <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
> > > > > Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7 
> > > > 
> > > > Mmmm. Been trying Evolution for a while, and, albeit somewhat slow on my
> > > > 400 bogomips machine, it is quite stable compared to the other graphical
> > > > MUAs availabe on Debian 3.0, and support everything the other ones do
> > > > (except sane use of core memory :)). Though, what I found really neat,
> > > > is it support for the gnu privacy guard. I know I may sound like a
> > > > Microsoft Windows user, but for example, James's message showed a small
> > > > lock at the bottom. When I clicked on it, it downloaded the key, and
> > > > checked the message against it, showing me gnupg's output. Also, saved
> > > > the key here, of course.
> > > > 
> > > > I was using mutt before. But I just get too many email right now, some
> > > > of it HTML, and I also did want to dig trough procmail to filter all the
> > > > incoming stuff in mailboxes, and to also save the mails I send out.
> > > > 
> > > > Oh, Evolution also lets you store the mail you've been receiving, in
> > > > Qmail's maildir format. I really like that.
> > > > 
> > > > Just though you might want to know.
> > > > 
> > > >  -- Jsb
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
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> James P. Kinney III   \Changing the mobile computing world/
> President and CEO      \          one Linux user         /
> Local Net Solutions,LLC \           at a time.          /
> 770-493-8244             \.___________________________./
> 
> GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
> <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
> Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7 
> 
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