Re: [Pan-users] Pan and IMAP

[Charles Kerr]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 12:55:25PM +1200, Mark Derricutt wrote:
> What would it take to get pan to handle IMAP accounts?
> 
> I hate to say it, but pan just kicks arse, and certainly kicks arse over any
> GUI email client that's ever been written for linux that I've seen.
> 
> And IMAP doesn't seem toooooo far off NNTP in its mode of use: download
> headers from subscribed groups, retreive body when message header is
> selected (or message is part of the watched/important xxxx rule based
> thread).
> 
> Would it be hard?  Would it be viable?  Would it be useful?

By my count, Linux has at least six good-to-great mail clients:
Mutt, Sylpheed, KMail, Balsa, Pine, and especially Evolution.
IMO Evolution is becoming _The_ MUA and the others will be reduced
to picking over markets Evolution can't enter
(Mutt:Consle, Sylpheed:Lightweight, KMail:Religion).

If I really wanted to integrate mail and news -- which I might,
someday -- I'd probably drop Pan and work on adding Pan-like features
to Evolution.

cheers,
Charles