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I have two questions.
1. --- After **playing** with LINUX on and off for a couple of
years, I've finally decided it's time to get rid of OS/2 and move to
LINUX. But, before I do that, I need to find an e-mail client with
all the features I've come to depend on in the OS/2 program PMMAIL/2.
This is a very full featured program and I don't want to lose all the
functionality I'm used to. I've tried the Kmail (KDE) program
installed by default in RedHat 6.0 and the e-mail component in
Netscape and neither of them is good enough for my needs. If anyone
can suggest which e-mail client supports the following **minimum**
list of requirements, I would appreciate it. Also, please tell me if
it already exists on my RedHat CD or where to find it. Here's the
list:
1 - multiple address books and mailing lists
2 - filters that can cause any of the following actions - copy or
move messages to a different mailbox, forward and/or delete a
message, copy a message to an external (text) file, set the
read/unread status, send a canned reply, add sender to address book,
inform me that a message matching a particular filter has arrived,
run a program or script.
3 - filters should work on incoming or outgoing messages or both
4 - it should be possible to run filters manually if necessary
5 - messages in each mailbox should be sorted by any or all of the
following - from, to, size, read status, date, attachment - all sorts
should be ascending or descending and it should be possible to
provide different sort criteria for each mailbox.
6 - spell checker
7 - multiple signatures
8 - multiple accounts - i.e ability to download messages from several
ISPs
9 - remote control - i.e. the ability to see a list of e-mail waiting
on the server and deciding manually which messages I want to download
10 - knows what to do with common types of attachments - .wav .jpg
gif .html .tar .zip and others
11 - search (like grep) inside a mail box using various criteria.
My second question is: Is it possible to **translate** the e-mail
messages from my current OS/2 program to the format used by whatever
Linux e-mail client I move to? I don't mind doing a bit of
programming - C, PERL, or whatever, but I would like to have old mail
I've saved over the years readable in my new client.
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Shlomo Solomon
solomon@shani.net
http://come.to/shlomo.solomon
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