After three years I’ve changed my eMailclient. I’m going away from sylpheed-claws to a combination of getmail, procmail, stunnel (for SSL) and Evolution or if want so, mutt. The main arguments for this decision was the unability of Sylpheed-Claws-gtk2 to handle with maildir, the format I want to use and the tempo of developing the Sylpheed-Claws-gtk2-version. GTK2 is released two years ago and the Sylpheed-Claws project seems to be unable and unwilling to create a stable an usable GTK2-Release. I’ve waited a very long time, but now it is enough. The CVS-Release is buggy without an end, it is very slow (reading my inbox with ~500 mails takes longer than 30 sec.). So I decided to change to Evolution as Client. Evolution is a DAU<sup>1</sup>-Client and had a lot of Feature less than Sylpheed-Claws but it looks much more as a Programm of 2004 and don’t uses a stone age GUI-Lib as GTK1 is it.
It is hard to say goodbye to a programm, who manages ~200.000 Mails in the last three years but there is no other chance. Sylpheed-Claws is the best client at all but the best must not mean a good.
My current solution ist very nice: getmail fetches the Mails over an stunnel-SSL-Connection every two minutes from Schokokeks and procmail filters them into maildirs. Filtering means not spamassassin and clamav, this is done on Schokokeks. Filting means only put them in the correct maildirs. Evolution is able to read maildirs and so it is just uses as a nice frontend to maildir ;) . Also the calendar-function of evolution ist really nice. I also tried Evolution 1.5. It is a fine app, but currently segfaults while reading my maildir :-/ I’m curious to see it stable!
But be careful: there were a lot of stumbling blocks. For example evolution nees every signature in the format <pre> signature… </pre>. So I edited the perl-script for random quotes and here is it again:
#!/usr/bin/perl
srand($$);
$sigfile = "/home/lars/Quote/lars.sig";
$quotedir = "/home/lars/Quote/";
opendir(SIGS, "$quotedir") || die "Folder of random quotes not found…" ;
@tops = grep(/^\w*\.quote$/, readdir(SIGS));
closedir(SIGS);
$top = int(rand $#tops);
open(TOP, "$quotedir/$tops[$top]");
print("&lt;pre&gt;\n– \n");
while(<TOP>) {
print("$_ ");
}
print <TOP>;
close(TOP);
print("\n");
open(QUOTE, "$sigfile") || die "Signature not found…";
print <QUOTE>;
close(QUOTE);
print("&lt;/pre&gt;");
I’ve also converted my old Mail in mbox-format to maildir. This was nut a lot of work because I find a script named sylpheed2maildir. I’ve edited a few things for my own need and then it works quite well (you find it here)
Screenshots of the new solution
[1.] German: “D
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So, after the most work with SchokoKeks is done, I’d time to recode my Website Strojny.net. Now it is near to be ready, some Manuals are still missing but I will complete soon. Now it is completely PHP-based, it is nice-structured (my opinion!) and is well designed (there are people how don’t like the colors, but thats unimportant).
Strojny.net – my Website
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The Europeean Greens catching votes in cloudy liquid. Not only that the creates bills with antiamericanic motives, they also has bills with Advertisment for the palaestine Intifada, the antisemitic progrom. (Look here, here and here
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Maybe I`was a little bit too optimistic but yesterday Schokokeks has a harddisk-crash and because of forgetting to backup the MySQL-DBs I’ve lost all the new stuff in the blog. Now all is restored and I’m happy again ;)
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