Eudora Replacement

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 21:31, Doug Sweetser wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> I use nmh, the n for new "mh".  For those that like small programs
> from the command line without its own interface to learn, it still
> does what I want it to do.  If I have to do anything fancy, I use
> Sylpheed Claws (with an alias of "mhg" for mh graphical).
> Conceptually it is nice to think of email as just another simple thing
> to do at the command line.  I really like that each email is its own
> separate file, in keeping with the general Unix philosophy (can be
> done with other programs too).

I used to use exmh on top of nmh. I was reluctant to switch for a long 
time, but I needed IMAP support for when I was on the road, and I never 
saw anyone working on a drop-in replacement for nmh that used an IMAP 
server. I briefly toyed with the idea of writing it myself, but I 
eventually gave up on it and switched to Evolution. 

The only thing I really missed from exmh was its support for face 
pixmaps. In the region between the list of messages and the content 
of the current message, exmh displayed a row of 48x48 pixmaps that 
indicated the message sender: for example, a message from "fred at hp.com" 
might display several icons, if they existed: one included in the 
message headers, one for "fred at hp.com", and one for "hp.com". If an 
icon had been added for the top-level "com", it would have displayed 
that as well. 

There's a site with a huge archive of these face icons: 

    http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/

including a FAQ that explains how to submit your icons to the archive: 

    http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html#submit

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