[Sheflug] Re: Gosh it *is* quiet!! (it might not be ? )

[Richard <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Alex

Alex Hudson wrote:

> Well, personally I prefer IMAP to POP, but anyway, it supports either.
> My personal setup just has it watch my UNIX mailbox, which gets filled
> via fetchmail, and sends email via the local system, which uses exim.
> Evolution pretty much expects to be able to contact any server you've
> told it about, so you need to run it in the manner I do if you have a
> dial-up machine. At work, I have it talk to the servers directly, but
> I'm on a lovely internet connection there so I can do that :))

Ah..  that's the bit I wanted to know.  So, I can set up procmail and
friends -sendmail - fetchmail - and all will be well :)  You'll have
to tell me more later on.

> And if I can just go on a bit about Evolution a bit more .. ! ... I
> really think it's magic. 

Yes, you aren't wrong :))
 
> One bad thing about Evolution: at work, it often crashes when emails are
> opened with large attachments. Don't know why, I think it's a problem
> with the display widget though. But, it handles HTML mail beautifully :)

Do you have the names and addresses of the people who send the
attachments ??

Thanks


-- 
Richard


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