-- Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Thursday, 19 December 2002, 11:22 AM -0500): > This one time, at band camp, Rohan Nicholls said: > > I have tried to get gnus working with teh exchange server at work, but > > it will only see the inbox, and not its subfolders, and I find the lack > > of multithreading (so stops while waiting for mail) a bit of a problem. > > > > I am thinking of installing evolution on the advice of another user, and > > saw that it wants to install 30 megs of libraries etc. so that has made > > me pause, although the possibility of being able to access the ldap > > server would be nice.... > > > > I have read and searched the web and tried out various clients, but > > there are surprisingly few that imap happily.:) > > > > I am looking for advice on: a lean imap client (I have switched to > > pheonix browser-wise and don't want the overhead of mozilla just for > > mail), and/or an ldap client that talks to exchange server. If both > > come in the same package so much the better. I use emacs a lot, so if > > they can integrate with emacs to allow me to compose in emacs I would be > > in heaven.:) > > > > thanks in advance for any advice. > > > > rohan > > <standard_advice> > Try mutt - it does literally everything. It understands IMAP, can use > LDAP for lookups (via little brother(IIRC)), is lightweight, highly > configurable, can use whatever editor you want for writing mail, does > gpg out of the box, and so many more things I'll run out of space before > I finish. In short, it rocks. > </standard_advice> little brother database -- package 'lbdb'. It can grab from LDAP, palm, bbdb (I mention this since you're an emacs user), and other sources. (I use it with the palm databases I sync via jpilot.) You have to configure lbdb for your own uses, so make sure you read through its man page.
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