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From: Malcolm
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike
Message-ID: <20070301150240.3d09542b@oscar-sled.homeunix.net>
Organization: Cleveland, MS 38732
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Zvd=d2t)uHB/O wrote:
> 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 Caveats: (1) I'm out of date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!
>
Are you running linux on the notebook or an x server? If so just use ssh
-X and run claws-mail. Else the other option is samba. I
have a NAS setup from ADS
http://www.adstech.com/products/NAS-806-EF/intro/NAS_806_intro.a
p?pid=NAS-806-EF
for file sharing web server etc.
I did have to install imagemagick and uudecode/yydecode and create my
own 'actions' for muti-part files.
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