[geeks] New Mail Client

[Mike Meredith]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:53:30 -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:26:53 +0000
> Mike Meredith <very at zonky.org> wrote:
> > It might be because we have CPU to burn these days 
> 
> True, but note that I said gtk2 appeared faster than gtk1.  With CPU
> to burn, shouldn't I think gtk1 was even faster?

At a guess I'd say that once a system is fast enough to deal with
the gtk2 graphical overhead, the gtk2 version could feel faster simply
because it's newer code and perhaps more efficient?

> I think it might be related to how ugly gtk1 is on my system.  I might
> be missing a library which would give me better performance or
> something like that.

Or that :)

> Before XRender was working, I found it too slow as well.

Yes, I should have mentioned that it was also pretty slow on a Solaris
10 machine at work ... which did have XRender. Not unusably slow though.

> My desktop isn't always running the same OS.  I access the same email
> accounts from three different machines so local spooling is not
> possible.

I'm sure many people don't have the option of switching away from
imap ... at work I'd be stuck with it as well, but being a postmaster
has certain privileges :) Just pointing out that it seems the MH
mailbox code may work better.

> I set some earlier today, but when I ran it again it had forgotten
> them.
> 
> Is there somewhere I need to go to save them?

I haven't seen that problem myself. It does sometimes seem to behave as
if there are separate sets of bindings depending on which of the three
main panels are 'selected' which is frustrating.

> It seems you cannot use ALT in the bindings.  Do you know of a way to
> enable that?

Just tried that out myself (I usually try to use Alt bindings only for
the window manager and others for applications) and noticed that some
Alt combinations can be bound (Alt-R) whereas others cannot ... it
looks like it's the ones used for Gtk2 menu shortcuts (Alt-E (Edit)).

> It would be interesting to see if things I wrote for mutt will work
> with sylpheed.  As long as it works on stdin/stdout, they should.

I can't see why most of them shouldn't although I dare say these tricky
computers will come up with some excuse to stop one or two working.

> Writing code on UNIX that doesn't let you use external programs is a
> sin.

That's probably the biggest reason I'm a Sylpeed Claws user ... at a
rough guess mail handling at work would take at least 25% longer
without certain specialised actions that implement functionality you
won't find in *any* MUA.

-- 
Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
  No security outfit ever went broke relying on the stupidity of users.