[plug] GUI vs text mail readers

[Trevor Phillips]

Christian wrote:
> 
> Netscape's IMAP is quite broken (I once spent several hours deleting
> close to 3,000 unwanted messages and Netscape told me they were gone
> only to find them all back again the next time I loaded Netscape.  I
> switched to mutt that same week.)  As for IMAP, mutt supports it but not

It is? I use Netscape IMAP 99% of the time and have had minimal problems. The
only problem is now & again a folder will vanish - I just nuke the local
ns_imap folder and next time it regenerates the folder tree!

I occasionally use PINE with IMAP, when Netscape isn't available. I'm waiting
for the day kmail has IMAP support. ^_^

> What would be really nice would be an client-side IMAP daemon that
> creates pipes accessible in locations such as /var/spool/mail/username
> and $HOME/Mail/ and then connects to an IMAP server to handle these
> requests.  That way any mail client could support IMAP instantly.  It's
> a nice idea, not even sure if it's implementable though.  I downloaded
> the fetchmail source code to consider the possibility of hacking that as
> the basis for such a program but then realised I would never have time
> to do it.  If anyone's bored and looking for something to hack, feel
> free to do so. :-)

Oooh!! That sounds really nasty! Cool! ^_^
(Says the person who's been playing with Pseudo-Virtual Web Servers - based on
conditions OTHER than hostname).

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