[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] XimianT

[Aaron Goldblatt]

> client that can work more like Eudora (the only reason I still use that 

The only clients I've run into that do this are KMail (part of 
kdenetwork), which has filtering, and Balsa, which doesn't unless you 
compile it in.  Balsa is designed for Gnome.

KDE's disadvantage for me was that it didn't support Maildir, a format I 
prefer.  Balsa speaks Maildir, but doesn't filter (but has a direct hook 
for procmail, so you don't have to have your MTA call it; Balsa can call 
it when you pop the mail in) natively yet, and the code is experimental.

I also had a number of crashes with Balsa that eventually drove me to 
mutt.  Most significantly, I couldn't send mail without putting it in the 
outbound queue (like Eudora's send later setting), and then I had to exit 
and restart Balsa before I could actually send.  If I sent immediately, 
Balsa segfaulted and the message was lost.  If I queued and then sent 
before I exited and restarted, Balsa segfaulted, didn't send, but didn't 
lose the message.  This was on the current version 1.2.3, and the bugzilla 
report came back saying to upgrade to 1.2.3.  There was also a message 
display symptom in the message index associated with this issue.

Kmail wasn't especially reliable either, but it was more stable than Balsa 
ever hoped to be.

ag.