[Lilux-help] imap, next meeting

[Eric Dondelinger]

Hi,

praise the Lord, sendar is back online :-)

1st question: the next meeting is next week, january 22nd.
Is it going to be at the LGL?

2nd question: can someone (ok Alain, I've got your answer ;-))
recommend a good IMAP GUI client (so no, I won't take fetchmail
or retchmail for an answer) for use on Debian woody, on a rather
weakish hardware (fluxbox environment)?

The server is Lotus Domino (Notes), it's about my work mailbox
(which is huge). No, I don't want the Lotus Notes Client either,
even if it runs on wine ;-) and I certainly don't want a web-based
client (which I've got anyway). A textmode-client might be acceptable,
though, and could actually really be useful, as long as I can connect
to that external server (i.e. no download to /var/spool/mail/).

I've got unexpected (and unusual) problems with Mozilla Mail: my
old install wouldn't start up the Mail part any more (browser still
came up fine), after a new installation (from .tar.gz, after cleaning
everything up incl. ~/.mozilla/), Mozilla Mail came up but it doesn't
show me all my folders - but will tell me there's already such a
folder when I try re-creating one of the existing ones).

I tried balsa, it was anything but stable, gave me errors all of
the time. Also, it seemed to lack a search function.

I tried Sylpheed, which seems to be more or less functional, but
still feels sort of weird by moments (when I hit "get", all messages
disappear from my screen until I restart the application).
The general feel of Mozilla Mail is definitely nicer (when it works).

I don't want to install kmail, as that would imply installing the
Qt libs and what goes with them, and that would imply some dependency
problems (guess I shouldn't have installed certain backports).

Installing a different distro is out of the question, that will
only change (to Debian testing or unstable) when I get another
machine to work with, in several weeks' time.

What else is out there, what have you tried or are you using?

Greetings and thanks,

Eric