fearless

Use sylpheed-claws. It does everything that Eudora does and has a
spamassassin plugin to boot. Its filters are very flexible and offer the
same array of features that Eudora offers - including both pre-figured
filters and also regular expression evaluation.

So far the only problem I've had is that it doesn't pick up http links very
well unless you have Netscape. I've tried to reconfigure it for Mozilla but
can't get it to work. This is a minor problem that is being addressed
before it gets to version 1.0. It's at 0.9.2 right now and is really quite
mature.

fearless

What version did you use. Sylpheed (not claws) is up to 0.9.3, while
sylpheed-claws - a much more robust version of sylpheed with bleeding edge
features - is up to version 0.9.0.

I don't actually understand your discomfort with sylpheed. What about the
mail directories feel "odd"? It simply uses "mh" format, which is the
defacto standard for Linux systems. I had no difficulty using sylpheed &
sylpheed claws. In fact, given a choice between Eudora for the Mac and
sylpheed running under X11, I chose sylpheed. Eudora for Windows is
"comfortable", but I wouldn't balk at changing to sylpheed-claws for Windows
were it available without having to install cygwin.

karen

Okay, I just installed Sylpheed 0.9.3 to refresh my memory about its pros
and cons and I remember now what I didn't like. It seems ridiculously
cluttered and messy to have a separate in, out, queued, draft, and trash
subdirectory for each mail directory/mailbox. It made me dizzy to look at
the mailfolder window with all those subdirectories.

I disagree that mh is the "defacto" standard for linux. mb is just as
common and my preference. Balsa, which uses mb format, would be a very
nice program if filtering were available.

Karen

fearless

I don't understand. I have four different pop3 accounts from which I
receive mail. I have exactly one in, one out, one queued, one draft, and
one trash subdirectory used by all four accounts. I also have a couple of
other subdirectories into which filtered mail goes. Are you saying that you
would have 4 different in boxes, 4 different out boxes, 4 different queued
boxes, 4 different draft boxes, and 4 different trash boxes in your
configuration? Because if you are, you are missing a key configuration
element.

justin

yes, I'm going to have to disagree with mh being any defacto standard.
I'd even guess that nowdays Maildir is more common than mh.

But the defacto standard would still be mailbox, mbox, whatever you want
to call it.