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Evolution

Posted Nov 17, 2011 21:36 UTC (Thu) by shane (subscriber, #3335)
In reply to: Ha-Ha-Only-Serious by chuckles
Parent article: Huge pages, slow drives, and long delays

I use Evolution. It has a few features I haven't found in other e-mail clients:

* Ability to specify only a part of the message as "preformatted text", so they don't get word-wrapped. Useful for pasting console output in support messages, for example.
* Nice "bullet list"/"number list" support.
* Pretty good IMAP support.
* Multiple-language spell-checking in a single mail.

It's bloated and slow, but newer versions actually do fix lots of bugs.


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Evolution

Posted Nov 17, 2011 23:44 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

> Ability to specify only a part of the message as "preformatted text", so they don't get word-wrapped. Useful for pasting console output in support messages, for example.
Do you mean when writing mails or viewing them? Mutt takes whatever $EDITOR gives back, verbatim. For viewing, I have bindings to toggle between 78 width and $COLUMNS-2 (300+ here which is a little much for a default wrap boundary).

> Nice "bullet list"/"number list" support.
I tend to just do ASCII lists in vim myself.

> Pretty good IMAP support.
I use offlineimap here.

> Multiple-language spell-checking in a single mail.
I'm not bilingual (or anything more for that matter), so I've not had to solve this one.

Evolution

Posted Nov 18, 2011 1:59 UTC (Fri) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497) [Link]

Vim does multilingual spell-checking.

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