On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:56:44 -0400 Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks Frank. I finally made the move and am happy with the change. I solved > many of the problems. I am answering my own questions here for the sake of > archives. Also for sake of archives I would like to defend my Sylpheed-Claws-GTK2 > > 1) Reply to list support > > In thunderbird, It is either Reply or Reply to All. Does kmail do a > > better job in this regard or is it as lame as thunderbird? > > > > Wow! Kmail's mailing list support is more than what I dreamed of. There is > reply to list feature. Filtering based on mailing lists is a breeze. Click on Reply will go to list, unless there is a 'Reply-To' set. In this case the OP will get a copy. Filtering is not *that* easy to set up, but there are loads of options. > > 2) Using other editors > > I would like to use vim or gvim to compose my emails. Currently > > thunderbird does not have any facility to use a custom editor. Does > > kmail have this feature? > > > > Just follow http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=302 > > The basic idea is to use gvim -f %f > Currently kvim is not available in Debian, unstable. So one has to be content > with gvim or use the default composer of kmail. External editor is very easy to set > > 3) Thread support > > Is it possible to sort the messages by threads instead of > > date/sender etc., This is possible in thunderbird. But I could not > > figure out how to do this in kmail. > > There is thread support. To get thunderbird's behavior I had to do Folder -> > Thread messages. Then click on Date (Order of Arrival). That's it. View -> Thread View or press Ctrl-T. > > 4) Spam and Junk mail control > > Thunderbird has very good support in terms of spam filtering. It can > > even adapt its spam filters as time goes on. How good is kmail in terms > > of spam filtering? I am not planning to use spamassassin etc., I am > > looking for in-built spam controls. > > > > Kmail as such does not come with any spam filtering support. One has to use > programs such as spamassasin, bogo filter, Annoyance filter etc., The idea is > to use programs which are good at filtering spam rather than making kmail do > it. Close to Unix philosophy I think! After reading the help on Tools -> > Anti-Spam Wizard , I settled onto bogo filter. Cant say anything about its > performance right now. But I hope it is good. Sylpheed[-Claws[-GTK2]] can use those as well, just don't know how difficult it is to set them up, never used that. Maybe I'm just lucky, but I don't get so much spam > Overall, in three words - kmail is great! > Dont know if I will change my opinion and go back to thunderbird in future. > But > for now Kmail rocks. Sylpheed[-Claws[-GTK2]] is very fast. It is definitely faster than T-bird, and it has more options/features than I will ever use Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
