Re: rawhide report: 20040715 changes

[Jim Cornette <music-cornette sbcglobal net>]

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