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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 09:28pm on 19/12/2007 under ,
I'm still at work, and it's nearly half-past nine. Why? I've been battling for a few days now with trying to install linux on my Mac Pro at work. I finally succeeded in doing this earlier this afternoon, and have since been trying to configure it to my satisfaction. More details about that later (or, more likely, tomorrow, given I've not eaten yet).

There are a few outstanding issues, which I'd be grateful for pointers on:

i) evolution - is it possible to get it to show a combined INBOX view from my two accounts? having to click back and forth between them is somewhat irksome. Also, it doesn't seem to scroll down to show new messages by default.

ia) is there a better email client? I suspect not, as they're all crap IME. It needs to do IMAP+SSL well, really.

ii) X - I have an Apple Cinema display, which X drives just fine. It's not, however, detecting the VGA monitor which is attached (the console just mirrors the two monitors, but obviously that doesn't work in X). How can I go about sorting that?

[more to follow later, I'm sure]
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posted by [identity profile] compilerbitch.livejournal.com at 09:55pm on 19/12/2007
I use and rather like Thunderbird. You can't coalesce multiple inboxes into a single inbox, but it does support multiple email accounts very well (one of my installations has five currently). It does do IMAP+SSL pretty much flawlessly though.
 
posted by [identity profile] compilerbitch.livejournal.com at 09:57pm on 19/12/2007
(I am assuming that there is a port of the X version of Thunderbird that works on macs...)
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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 10:36pm on 19/12/2007
I was thinking of running it on linux - Mail.app is BALGE under OSX
 
posted by [identity profile] compilerbitch.livejournal.com at 11:00pm on 19/12/2007
BALGE?

Thunderbird works great on Linux -- I have it on 2 actual for-real machines and a number of VMs.
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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 11:17pm on 19/12/2007
By And Large Good Enough
 
posted by [identity profile] zbtron.livejournal.com at 06:14am on 20/12/2007
linux on a mac? if i could afford a mac i would not redo it with linux. that's like installing a sunroof in your umbrella.
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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 11:37am on 20/12/2007
Heh. Well, it's work that shelled out for the hardware. I do a lot of moderately-large number-crunching for work, and linux actually has a better set of tools for than than macos (in the sense that the entire system is 64-bit, whereas it's all still a bit half-arsed even with Leopard).
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posted by [personal profile] sparrowsion at 10:32am on 20/12/2007
Kmail is still, for me, the least crap email client going. (Especially after having wasted far too long with Mail.app last night trying to use the wrong SMTP server and taking forever to time out, and only allowing a reset , AFAICT, after that timeout.)

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