Re: [RULE] remarks on sylpheed

[Jason Bechtel]

Richard,

I know that version 0.1 has only just been
released, but have you tried Mozilla Thunderbird,
yet?  I've always had good experiences with using
the Mozilla suite's mail reader and composer.  I
would expect it to handle charsets properly.  If
you can manage to get it installed on your test
machine somehow, it might be something that will
work for your needs.

Jason


---- Begin Original Message ----
 From: Richard Kweskin <address@hidden>
Sent: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:31:16 +0300
Subject: [RULE] remarks on sylpheed

From: Richard Kweskin <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Reply-To: address@hidden
Subject: remarks on sylpheed
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 14:54:11 +0300
X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10;
i386-redhat-linux-gnu)

Hello All

Notes (after using Sylpheed 0.8.9 to get, read
and send mail)

It comes with Redhat (version 9 puts it on cd 3.)

Running on top of Icewm and kdrive Sylpheed
starts up almost instantly (box has 64MB main and
2MB video memory.)

After editing /etc/sysconfig/i18n to get the
Greek locale most menu items are now in Greek and
composing in either Greek or English is no problem.

When using the correct font a simple
View->Encoding manual change to 8859-7 allows
reading of Greek characters that were originally
encoded the same way (annoying is the fact that
the encoding is not saved and must be reapplied
each time Sylpheed is opened) but those Greek
characters originally encoded as UTF-8 have (so
far) remained unreadable no matter what options
are applied. (This has nothing to do with
setxkbmap which only provides writing not
reading.) In contrast, Kmail with the same font
(with several versions of Redhat with Fluxbox and
kdrive) always worked with either one manually
selected.

Richard
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