Comments on: What thunderbird needs to replace mutt for me http://www.kgarner.com/blog/archives/2005/08/08/what-thunderbird-needs-to-replace-mutt-for-me/ Keith's attempts to fix the cable of life Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:09:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Mark Notarus http://www.kgarner.com/blog/archives/2005/08/08/what-thunderbird-needs-to-replace-mutt-for-me/comment-page-1/#comment-1356 Mark Notarus Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:30:23 +0000 http://www.kgarner.com/blog/?p=176#comment-1356 Under windows and mac, thunderbird can already forward an arbitrary number of messages. Select a group of messages (or a thread) and drag those messages to the "send" area of your compose window and they'll be attached Similarly, you can highlight more than one message and right click and choose "foward as attachment" Under windows and mac, thunderbird can already forward an arbitrary number of messages. Select a group of messages (or a thread) and drag those messages to the “send” area of your compose window and they’ll be attached

Similarly, you can highlight more than one message and right click and choose “foward as attachment”

]]> By: Danny Howard http://www.kgarner.com/blog/archives/2005/08/08/what-thunderbird-needs-to-replace-mutt-for-me/comment-page-1/#comment-1353 Danny Howard Tue, 09 Aug 2005 16:15:18 +0000 http://www.kgarner.com/blog/?p=176#comment-1353 Wow. You've given me some new things to try with mutt. :) Does Thunderbird handle well the "someone forwarded you an attached message thread" thing? I imagine that could be annoying in a GUI mail reader, though I'm thinking Outlook. BAH, Thunderbird is nice, but kind of flakey. As for that last feature, that reminds me of when I tried Opera a while back, which did crazy stuff like automatically create virtual mail folders out of messages attached to mailing lists, by cleverly scanning headers. If it were a little more robust (I think this stuff wsa newlish features) I could see Opera being a very fine software, ESPECIALLY for newbs who don't want to figure out filtering. GMail should create "virtual list folders" IMO ... even better if they collaborated with Mozilla Foundation to create some neat uber-client. -danny Wow. You’ve given me some new things to try with mutt. :)

Does Thunderbird handle well the “someone forwarded you an attached message thread” thing? I imagine that could be annoying in a GUI mail reader, though I’m thinking Outlook. BAH,

Thunderbird is nice, but kind of flakey. As for that last feature, that reminds me of when I tried Opera a while back, which did crazy stuff like automatically create virtual mail folders out of messages attached to mailing lists, by cleverly scanning headers. If it were a little more robust (I think this stuff wsa newlish features) I could see Opera being a very fine software, ESPECIALLY for newbs who don’t want to figure out filtering.

GMail should create “virtual list folders” IMO … even better if they collaborated with Mozilla Foundation to create some neat uber-client.

-danny

]]> By: Jason Lindquist http://www.kgarner.com/blog/archives/2005/08/08/what-thunderbird-needs-to-replace-mutt-for-me/comment-page-1/#comment-1352 Jason Lindquist Tue, 09 Aug 2005 03:52:26 +0000 http://www.kgarner.com/blog/?p=176#comment-1352 I didn't know Apple Mail did that. That <i>is</i> damned cool. I'm amazed that not only does that TBird extension not support GMail, it doesn't list it as unsupported either, as if he hasn't heard of it. WTF? I was thinking of investigating Thunderbird for work mail, since we're POP3-only there. If that doesn't work, Dave pointed out the <code>--mda</code> option to <strike>felchmail</strike>fetchmail, which hands stuff off directly to procmail. Cygwin provides mutt, fetchmail, and procmail, so I have a full-on WinXP solution even without postfix... I didn’t know Apple Mail did that. That is damned cool.

I’m amazed that not only does that TBird extension not support GMail, it doesn’t list it as unsupported either, as if he hasn’t heard of it. WTF?

I was thinking of investigating Thunderbird for work mail, since we’re POP3-only there. If that doesn’t work, Dave pointed out the --mda option to felchmailfetchmail, which hands stuff off directly to procmail. Cygwin provides mutt, fetchmail, and procmail, so I have a full-on WinXP solution even without postfix…

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