Re: [Hampshire] Demo talks

* john lewis (johnlewis@???) wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:16:44 +0000
> Adrian Bridgett <adrian@???> wrote:
>
> > [2] Slypheed Claws for example
>
> I get the feeling this is aimed at me :)
>
> I don't know what I can say tho' other than install one of the
> variants of sylpheed (basic sylpheed, sylpheed-claws or the one I use
> sylpheed-claws-gtk2)
>
> If you want to use the available plugins then you really need the
> gtk2 version as there are far fewer for the basic versions. You can
> install the plugins individually or via a meta package that gets the
> lot.
>
> If you are installing using apt and you don't have spamassassin or
> clamav already they will be pulled in as dependencies of the
> plugins.
>
> Plugins allow things like syncing with widows CE devices whatever
> they are :-) more useful tho are the ones that use dillo to read
> html, deal with pgp and so on.
>
> Set it up to collect from wherever you collect mail from and it just
> works. It looks much like any other gui mailreader. The appearance
> easily configurable and there are a number of themes you can use
> if you don't like the default.
>
> You can have multiple 'identities' and sylpheed will respond
> appropriately when replying.
>
> Default storage is MH, which means each email is stored as an
> individual file and not lumped into one humongous file. One of the
> plugins can convert between MH and other ways of doing it so you can
> import/export your archived mail.
>
> You do need to tweak spamassassin/clamav but this is normal and there
> are a couple of entries on the wiki about how to do it.
>
> and that's about it really

And now you have written the outline for your talk, you have no
excuse left :-)

--
Philip Stubbs