[Evolution] Re: What I want in a mail client ....

[Alan Shutko <ats acm org>]

My list.  It can be summed up as "I want it to be able to replace
Gnus."

* Retrieve from multiple POP accounts, inbox files, or mix.

* Filtering based on header or full-body.

* Filtering to groups based on type of match.  In other words, I want
  to create a single rule that anything matching HDC *\([0-9]+\) gets
  placed in work.calls.\1 (for instance).

* Hierarchical folder viewing.

* Fast access to messages in 32MB folders.  Ideally, fast access to
  messages in folders up to 100MB or larger (so I don't have to keep
  archiving folders).  Folders should be able to have at least 10,000
  messages in them without degrading.  (Given the number of people who
  complain about the speed of Gnus with 10,000 message folders, I'm
  sure I'm not the only one who deals with lots of mail.)

* Flexible personalities (signature and header values, at a minimum)
  on a per-folder basis.

* Ability to override various brokenness (Reply-to headers set to
  lists, for example) on a per-folder basis.

* Per-folder information for mailing lists: posting address, admin
  address, etc.

* Ability to set display to new messages only, on a per-folder basis

* Good disconnected use.  The only way I should notice that I'm
  disconnected (if I'm using local message store) is that I'm not
  getting new mail.

* News access, preferably treating newsgroups and mailing list folders
  the same.

* Dynamic signatures 8^)

* gzipped folder/message support

* Scoring

* Per-folder message expiry (so I don't have to specify when to
  hard-delete messages)

It would also be nice if it could search dejanews, read webmail and
webboards as normal groups, etc. but those are a pain to do.  The
above is a list of the features I use on a daily basis.  I haven't yet
tried Evolution (getting at least 500 msg/day makes me wary of 

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Alan Shutko <ats acm org> - In a variety of flavors!
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