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From: David Aldred 
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Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:58:08 +0000
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David Aldred wrote:

> Malcolm wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:58:29 +0000
>> David Aldred  wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> So, guys, anything out there which can really replace Turnpike - or,
>>> come to that, anyone with programming skills looking for a project?
>>> 
>> Hi
>> Have a look at claws-mail http://www.claws-mail.org/
>> 
> That looks very impressive!   I'll give it a try for as bit....
> 

Ok, had a brief play!

The version in the Kubuntu repositories is 2.5.0rc3, and it's clear from the
website that there is very active development going on (current version now
is 2.8.0).   I found a few things a bit kludgy in 2.5.0, but the changelog
looks as though other people did too and 2.8.0 is probably far better. 

Testing from even 2.5.0 looks good, though, and I think it is likely to
replace Kontact fairly quickly here!  I'll have to grab the 2.8.0 source
and compile (unless it's on a different repository somewhere).

Fellow TP fans: I think this could be the way to go.   And with active
development going on, and developers keen on improvements, this is likely
to get better as time goes by.   Caveats: (1) I'm out of date on TP since
I've not used it for a while.   Someone else have a try and see!  (2) Claws
is going to take a little more work to make do some things, but it is
extremely configurable.  It will even allow you to pass an email to a
script for processing (automatically, depending on conditions) - so almost
anything could be arranged!



This may be a bit unfair, but the one thing it doesn't do which Turnpike
(with extra 'seats' bought) does is allow the mailboxes to be accessed from
a different machine (so you could have one copy of TP Connect and several
of the TP client on different networked machines).   The nice thing was
that (as I recall) this took only a few minutes  - well, say a quarter of
an hour - to set up.

There's probably an easy way of doing this under Linux (it's one of those
things which 'feels' as though it should be easily handled by Linux): it's
not historically been a big issue for me, but if anyone can tell me a
reasonably straightforward way of accomplishing this I'd be grateful.   I
can chuck the kids of my main machine when I want to read email, but at
times it would keep the peace better if I could just leave them and read
via my laptop!

'Reasonably straightforward' here does not include large amounts of
configuration to set myself up my own local IMAP server or similar - if
that's the only option I'll come back to it when I have several hours to
spare!

-- 
David Aldred
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