Pawel Salek wrote:
On 07/16/2004 05:02:54 PM, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 09:22 -0500, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
>
> > I think balsa is a nice, simple MUA and I generally recommend it for
> users
> > that I install Linux for. I'm not a fan of the current
> Outlook/Evolution
> > approach. Having said that, balsa is a great candidate for Fedora
> Extras.
> > If people want to reduce the size of Fedora Core (this opinion
> seems to
> > be pretty much unanimous) then we need to start making compromises
> like
> > this.
>
> The problem with most MUAs, is that they don't support advanced
> features, like SASL authentication (CRAM-MD5, Kerberos, X.509, etc)
> or disconnected (offline) operation when using IMAP. That's one of
> the reasons I keep using Evolution, since I *need* Kerberos
> authentication support to access my IMAP mailbox. AFAIK, only Pine
> does also support Kerberos authentication via SASL.
balsa-2.2.x does support Kerberos authentication (AUTH=GSSAPI). It
supports AUTH=CRAM-MD5 as well. It is a lightweight client and the
offline operation is not there but it can well open mailboxes
containing 10000+ messages over a dialup link (the slow part is
GtkTreeView, it has problems rendering that many rows). Try that with
other heavy weight MUAs without having a cache preloaded.
Pawel
I tried out Balsa for a short time and thought that is was a decent program. I did notice
that the size that you made certain items. (subject, date, sender, etc:) were defaulted to
the original size (not the sizes that I preferred) on restarting application. Another
thing that was a distraction was the deleted items still showing , even after messages
were deleted. I viewed it as a mini-evolution mailer. A mailer that is worthy of
inclusion, but not as a substitute for another program just yet.
Jim