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[Pawel Salek]

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