Re: [LUG] rant about mail clients

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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And while we are on the subject of evolution, does anyone know the
secrets of getting it to sync with a PDA ? I can't get mine to sync at
all !!!

Jon Lawrence wrote:
| Another thing that evolution doesn't support is inline GPG signatures.
| It is registered as a bug but the developers say it may never be fixed -
| damn them.
|
| Jon
|
| On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 10:18, James Keasley wrote:
|
|>Why is it that a nice mail client comes along, but in their infinite
|>wisdom the developers see fit to break something that every other mail
|>client does?
|>
|>To whit, Evolution 1.4, while being very nice, with an easy to use gui
|>and lots of powerful features doesn't support the eons old standard
|>sigfile of .signature.
|>
|>Not do you have to enter your static sig into an in client editor, or
|>import it to that editor or, you can use a script to get a sigmonster,
|>but that script has to spit its output straight into the mail, rather
|>than as the one I wrote does, update a static file in the home dir.
|>
|>On top of that, to get a script to format corrrectly in evolution
|>you have to use html tags, although it strips these out before it
|>sends the email.
|>
|>Gah, that threw me a bit, I had to rewrite the sigmonster script
|>especially for use in evolution, as everything else I use for email
|>and news will get the sig from a file.
|>
|>On a side note this is also to see if I can send mail to the list using
|>mutt.
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