Hey, all-- So many people on this list have mentioned neat features of Sylpheed-Claws that I wanted to check it out.
My problem is that I'm currently using Thunderbird, and I want to share my stored mail with Sylpheed-Claws. In the event Sylpheed-Claws doesn't suit me, I certainly don't want my mail winding up split all over the place (the "new" mail in the MH directory, and the "old" mail in the directory Thunderbird points to --which is not in ~/.thunderbird, btw). Now, I could always leave the mail on the POP3 server just for that, but I also want to know how Sylpheed will act upon my current settings (labels, filters, etc). And I just don't want to have to manage two mail directories, even temporarily. As I understand it, I could share the mail directory with the sylpheed-claws-mailmbox plugin, but I can't get it to work under either the GTK version (1.0.4) or the GTK2 version (1.9.9). It's a twisted tale of installs, uninstalls and reinstalls (the bulk of which I will spare you), but the upshot seems to be that under 1.0.4 no plugin would load (even the builtins), giving me 'invalid ELF header' errors, and under 1.9.9, the only mbox plugin is for 1.0.4 (GTK1, in other words, but the builtin plugins load fine). As much as I dislike GTK1 apps, I would drop back down to 1.0.4 (now updated to 1.0.4a, I see in just the couple of hours I've been playing with this; just my luck) if it would work, but I presently don't have any such assurance. So here are my questions: 1. Is this even possible in the first place? What I want is to point sylpheed to my current mail directory, which is the same one I've used since before 1) I moved to Holland 5 years ago; 2) I switched from Windows to Linux; 3) Thunderbird even existed (way back when, I was using MozillaMail, and before that Netscape Mail). In other words, I've ported this same mail directory and its contents across an ocean, from ISP to ISP, and from OS to OS-- I really don't want to screw it up now just because I changed mail clients. If I did, I'd be using Opera :-) or (heaven help us) KMail. If I can't change back to my current mail client without endangering my data (which, as you might guess, I somewhat value) via 2 conversion operations (to Sylpheed-Claws and then back again if I don't like it), then the deal is off already. 2. If this is possible, under which version of Sylpheed-Claws is it possible? My guess is that the new GTK2 version is so new that the plugin has not yet been updated to match-- but can I expect this to occur in a reasonably timely fashion (in other words, is the speed of Claws development fast, slow, or non-existent)? If I should drop back to the GTK version, how can I do so so that the plugins will load when I try to activate them? Uninstalling everything and then installing the client and the plugins in the correct order did not seem to work, and I really didn't feel like recompiling libelf for "no reason". So if someone can confirm that either an updated plugin is likely within a few days, or that recompiling libelf would "fix" the GTK plugins, I'd wait or give it a shot. It really looks like a nice program (it did when I looked at it last year, too), and I would regret not having the opportunity to check it out more thoroughly, but I am admittedly (extremely) anal about my mail (which is actually pretty funny, all things considered, but it's my right to be as weird as I want about what I want to be weird about, and I'm exercising it :-) ). TIA for any help/advice, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
