Re: Re: [LI] multiple pop accounts in linux.

["Bilal Muddassir" <noorh@xxxxxxx>]

Pine 3.96 would load everything up in memory from the mailbox file and that
was bad. Mutt atleast doesn't throw everything in RAM. I don't see a
lag-with-disk-access even. I don't know about Pine 4.x.

----- Original Message -----
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <Suresh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar.daithankar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [LI] multiple pop accounts in linux.


> On 23 Nov 99, at 23:39, thus spake Shridhar Daithankar :
>
> >  I would suggest you Kmail. Give it a try. People says that it's
> > buggy, but I haven't experienced it yet. Using it for only two
> > days.!!
>
> KMail is buggy for more than one reason.  For example, it always
> sends mails as content-transfer-encoding:8 bit
>
> This is sick - and totally non standard, even though most newer
> mtas are adapting to it.  ASCII text mail should always be sent as 7
> bit, that's the generally accepted standard.
>
> Also - a few other bugs like an alarming tendency to slow down and
> eventually crash, given a heavy mail load (200+ mails a day for a
> few weeks).  It takes forever to refresh the view and repaint its
> windows, btw.
>
> Use fetchmail and Mutt for multiple identities, that would be the best
> option.
>
> Sigh, I wish Pegasus Mail came in a Linux version.  Even then,
> Pegasus is so light that you can use wine or vmware to run it,
> without any hassles.  Download for free from
> http://www.pmail.com/dl and see for yourself.
>
> --s
>
>
>
> Suresh Ramasubramanian
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>
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