On 02-May-2013 16:48:30 mick wrote:
On Thu, 02 May 2013 16:30:59 +0100 Chris Walker cdw_alug@the-walker-household.co.uk allegedly wrote:
I then looked around for another free mail reader and found Claws. If I set that up in IMAP mode, it *does* show the sent mail. Further googling showed that Claws was developed from the same code base as Sylpheed so if one program can display the sent mail, why won't the other?
Any help/ideas appreciated.
I've used claws for some time now. It is essentially "sylpheed with plugins". AFAIR sylpheed handled POP3 and IMAP (and wikipedia seems to confim that) so I'm a little surprised you have problems. But I'd recommend you move to claws anyway.
Mick
Claws looks interesting! It certainly has a lot of capabilities, and might, for me, be a worthy successor to XFMail (which I'm still using, but which is defunct in development and no longer available with recent Linux distributions).
There is one question that I haven;t been able to find an answer to on the claws website [ http://www.claws-mail.org/ ].
A thing I regularly need to do (and which is what prompted me to adopt XFMail, nearly 20 years ago) is -- when I am writing a new email or replying to one -- to be able to have other email messages (which I have saved) open in separate windows.
This allows cross-referencing, or pasting in quotes, from other relevant emails. E.g. if I want to see what someone wrote in the past on a subject which I'm currently writing about, I can track down their old email in a folder listing, double-click on it, and it will open up. And you can have several open at the same time, for complex matters.
This is the computer equivalent of taking several different sheets of paper out of different folders in different filing cabinets, and spreading them out on your desk for reference.
XFMail is the only mail client that I have found, so far, which allows this to be done nicely.
Can claws do it? Or be persuaded to do it (I see that it has provision for users to write their own "add-ons").
Oh, and while I'm at it: Does claws permit arbitrary editing of stored emails (e.g. adding/deleting/editing content, adding/removing attachments, etc.)? And does it have flexible provision for appropriate handling of MIME types?
With thanks, Ted.
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