[2947] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Requirements for GUI mail client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sat Sep 15 18:29:03 2001
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 15 Sep 2001 18:28:55 -0400
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> That doesn't make sense; Balsa only borrows some support code from
> mutt, not the overall architecture. In fact, at first glance it
> appears that Balsa, like Evolution and (to some extent) Pine, has the
> hardcoded notion of a primary mail store in the native format, and it
> may not be possible to configure it to use only a remote mail store
> without hackery.
Never mind, then; I was thinking that Balsa borrowed more code than
that. (A contributing factor may be that as a Gnus weenie, I am used
to backend independence and surprised that newer clients lack it.)
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
