Hating my mail

[elfs]

I have never found a mailer program I like. Never. The text-based ones have poor spam detection, and the UI-based ones like Evolution or Thunderbird are just slow. Evolution was such a resource hog I just can't put it onto my laptop, and Thunderbird, while not being quite the resource monster or having quite so many bugs, is so agonizingly slow that using it is always an act of last resort.

It's especially bad if I'm running the transaction over a remote X connection. The draw routines, especially when typing a title, show up pixel-by-fraking-pixel! It's like thinking with molasses in your cranium.

*Sigh* I'd love a text-based program that just gave me my mail, and a filter as effective as thunderbird's. I can't live without the spam handler, but I can't do email effectively with the state of the art.

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[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Like everyone else - mutt + spamassassin + procmail

My domain lives on sidehack.gweep.net, and my friends who run that server setup spamassassin globablly, so I haven't messed with it much. I use procmail to handle mail based on SA's scores, as well as a few other rules of my own.

And, of course, I use the trick of giving every site I deal with a unique address, which helps me track who is being naughty and keeps more spam out of my main inbox.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Okay, here's the trick. I'm on a laptop that's constantly changing networks, and frequently is attached to none. I have four or more different POP accounts that I might want to reference: my gmail, my speakeasy, and my drizzle accounts. I want fetchmail to grab from all of them-- when I'm connected to a network-- and to not even try when I'm not. I want the mail sucessfully forwarded to procmail to be spamchecked and then sorted according to the mailing lists I'm on.

I'm sure there's a way to do this.

[lazarus834.livejournal.com]

I use KMail - it handles many different accounts and identites and networks, lets you move them up or down on the list, and you can attach certain identities to certain folders, certain servers to identities, etc etc.

But the problem is, it only works in KDE, and it uses maildir format, which apparently is not 100% compatible with the maildir that mutt uses :-(

So apparently if you use kmail you're also supposed to run courier IMAP server so you can access your maildirs remotely. But I haven't gotten around to setting that up yet...