[Gllug] KMail's disappearing inbox

Xander D Harkness xander at harkness.co.uk
Fri Feb 7 23:50:40 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 20:57, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 01:10, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> 
> > Or is this the final nail that will encourage me to use that Ximian Outlook 
> > clone or Mozilla's bloat-mail? And no, mutt and pine can go > /dev/arse
> 
> I'm admittedly biased here, but I've always disliked the preponderance
> of mailstore formats available. IMHO, you're much better of setting up
> and IMAP server, and then you can chop and change mail clients easily. 
> 
> Personally, I'm using cyrus, which means I leave a program I can trust
> in charge of manging the on-disk mailstore, and at least then when
> evolution/mozilla crashes on me, they weren'y in the process of writing
> to a file on disk containing all my mail....
I fully agree with this.  Even if you are not looking for complexity, UW
IMAP is a good solid basic one and gives a mail account to everyone on
the box with a valid login.

Kind regards
Xander
> 
> Mike.
> 
> 


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