mail program for FC6

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Mar 5 00:43:56 UTC 2007


James Wilkinson:
>> None of them have proper support for mail scoring. It looks as though
>> Claws has recently got it.
>> 
>> Mail scoring (based on sender, subject, spam scores, etc.) takes a
>> little bit of setting up, but can be very useful on something like the
>> Fedora lists if your client has it.

Les Mikesell:
> Where possible, I think this is better done at the transport layer with 
> MimeDefang, adding headers that the user agent(s) can easily parse for 
> rule processing.  That way you don't have to wait for scanning to happen 
> at the user level and aren't tied to the quirks of any particular mail 
> program.

I tend to agree that such things may be better done externally, but if
you only ever manage your mail with one client on one PC, you may as
well do it all with it.  I see the Evolution does let you assign and
adjust scores based on rules, though if I wanted to do it, I'd probably
do it externally because Evolution is tediously slow at working rules
over its mail, and I do use the same mail on different clients and PCs.

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