Camaleón posted on Sat, 17 Oct 2015 15:36:51 +0000 as excerpted: > Hint: Using Mutt (with a patch) and Thunderbird as default newsreaders > are also another option but I prefer to keep things separate: MUA for > standard/work/home e-mails and Pan for mailing list posts.
Same here, tho using different clients (but for pan). * I use pan for the lists via gmane, and thus keep them out of my mailbox. (And I use pan-attach-kd to post attachments to the lists when necessary, thus avoiding both sending "mail client unreadable gibberish" to the lists, and having to do the mail client thing or having to use some other base64/uue attaching news client alternative, to avoid the gibberish alternative.) * Actually, I have a total of three separate pan instances setup (set the PAN_HOME var to different values for each instance, to keep them separate). One for my text groups, mostly gmane lists these days. One for binaries, which I don't use very often, but I bought a full 1000 GiB block from astraweb a couple years ago ($50, IIRC), and do download a few binaries on it occasionally (tho at my current usage rate, that single block purchase may well be a lifetime account... which is actually why I bought that big a block, so if I didn't suddenly change and start downloading a whole bunch, it'd last me the rest of my life or close to it). And one for testing, so I don't mess up the nice subscription lists and tracking of my other two instances when I'm just screwing around, or when I'm checking pan behavior on a specific post someone mentions here, in some group I'm not subscribed to, for instance. * I use (the also gtk-based) claws-mail for my email. (It /can/ do news too, but being single-threaded for news is a significant limitation that's just not worth it for me.) Claws-mail is gui/gtk based, but does mh-format mail dirs (also an option with mutt, as it happens) and has hooks in the gui that make scriptable extensions much easier than most guis. The ability to run these extensions is a primary feature, so unlike some gui clients (like my previous one, kmail), they're unlikely to do crazy things with databases or otherwise break ordinary mail handling as well as all their users' extension scripts. In this way, while it is gui-based, it's extremely script friendly, much like mutt, tho mutt is of course CLI based. * I also use claws-mail as my (rss and atom) feed reader. There's a plugin for this that makes it very easy, and being claws, my feed reader is now as extremely user script extensible as claws itself is. =:^) However, because I strongly prefer to keep my mail and feeds separate, I actually run a second claws-mail instance, pointed at a different homedir and tmpdir so it doesn't interfere with the first one running for mail, and with a different icon theme so I can tell which is which in the tray, for instance, as my feed reader. Setting up two separate instances that way isn't terribly difficult, but the default is definitely to run both feeds and mail (and news if I were to use claws for news too, another reason not to) in the same unified client, so I don't expect that a lot of people actually have the separate client setup I do. The point being, I definitely appreciate your preference for keeping things separate, so much so that I went out of my way to setup both multiple claws-mail instances to deal with mail and feeds separately, and multiple pan instances to deal with text and binaries and tests separately. IOW, you definitely have my support on the separate clients thing! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
