Anyone following RELENG_5_2?

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 21 July 2004 01:34 pm, Chris wrote:
> Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> > Chris wrote:
> >>RacerX wrote:
> >>>Dan Langille wrote:
> >>>>Are you following RELENG_5_2 by cvsup'ing and building world?  I ask
> >>>>because I've never tried that on -CURRENT.  Anyone having good results
> >>>>by upgrading from 5.2.1-RELEASE?
> >>>>
> >>>>Someone mentioned that we are now up to 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 and I figure
> >>>>I should upgrade.  Perhaps tomorrow, while I'm at
> >>>>http://www.linuxsymposium.org/  ;)
> >>>
> >>>Dan -
> >>>
> >>>    I use 5.2.1-REL-p9 on both my devices. Have been for months. It runs
> >>>just dandy, and everything I use works.
> >>>
> >>>Some specs -
> >>>On my home PC:
> >>>Athlon 2100
> >>>
> >>>Laptop:
> >>>Dell Inspiron 7500
> >>
> >>Blah - sorry about that. New mail client. Dropped KMail for Thunderbird
> >>and I guess I didn't have all of it configured.
> >
> > How is that working out for you? (Kmail -> Thunderbird)
> >
> > I've always felt that KMail is a superior mail client, especially when it
> > comes to IMAP, but I'd love to be able to use something that runs on
> > Win32 too. How much mail do you manage daily, and do you use IMAP?
>
> KMail is nice - however, for IMAP, KMail does NOT support the use of
> email filters. (Booo) Perhaps in an upcoming release it may.
>
> The Mozilla site has a how-to if you need to "export" your email from
> KMail. Mind you, I use the term export lightly.
>
> It's time consuming but rather straight to the point. I did it, and I am
> very happy I did so.  T-Bird does support IMAP (Coo) but I don't use it
> thus far.
>
> The filtering is far better then KMail's (IMHO) and like you, am trying
> to keep my mail clients even in both FreeBSD and Winders.

With IMAP, it makes the most sense to do the mail filtering on the server when 
the mail comes in rather than when the client connects.  If you do the 
filtering in each of your clients.  I use a cyrus IMAP server with a Sieve 
filtering script on my server.  By doing the filtering on the server, my mail 
is always properly sorted if I use kmail, squirrelmail webmail, mutt, or any 
other mail client.  It's also more efficient bandwidth-wise to do the 
filtering on the server. :)

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