| Christopher Barry on 19 Sep 2016 09:30:44 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Top-posting (was: Replacement mailing list idea) |
On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 20:13:02 -0400 Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote: >On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 18:45:51 -0400 >Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 6:19 PM, Steve Litt >> <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote: >> > On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 16:23:58 -0400 >> > Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote: >> > >> >> On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Steve Litt >> >> <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > I use a gmail address for a couple of my mailing list >> >> > subscriptions, and I'm perfectly able to bottom post, via my >> >> > Claws-Mail email client. >> >> >> >> Sure, I was referring to using GMail as an MUA, not an MTA. >> >> Obviously if it is just the MTA it shouldn't be messing with the >> >> content of the email or things like the References header. I >> >> imagine that MS Exchange would probably work just as well in that >> >> regard. >> > >> > So use a real MUA, not one provided by Google. >> > >> >> Alas, I've yet to find a decent one that works in a browser. >> Roundcube and Squirrelmail are the best I've found, and their >> keyboard shortcuts are terrible. > >So don't use webmail. Use a real MUA. OF COUSE webmail's cumbersome and >has inconvenient hotkeys. That's what webmail is. > >Seriously, install Claws-Mail, or Thunderbird, or Mutt, or whatever, >and life will be easier. > >SteveT > I'm on the xorg lists, and Keith Packard just released 1.19 rc1 via the announce list. In that email was a header with a link to a tag-based email system that seemed kind of germane to this discussion. He's using it from within emacs I believe, but it can be used in multiple other ways as well. While I have not read it all, it looks pretty interesting. https://notmuchmail.org/ -- Regards, Christopher ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug