[rox-users] OT: Gemini (was Re: Rox problem?)

[John P. <jo...@xl...>]

In a previous message, Graham Borland wrote:

> John Pettigrew <jo...@xl...> writes:
> 
> > I'm using the Gemini email client (the linux version of MessengerPro)
> 
> Oh, tell me more about this!

OK  :-) 

> Does it retain the RISC OS-like interface, with proper separate windows
> rather than nasty panes and MDI?

Configurable - you can have all separate, or just keep message windows
separate, or have them all in one big window.

> Is it GTK-based?

No, it's Qt. Bit of a pain because I'm a Gnome user. However, I've
installed a Gtk+Qt metatheme, which means it still fits the rest of my apps.
FWIW, I'm using Keramik/Geramik - the only other combined theme I know of is
QtCurve.

> For so long I've been desperate for a useable desktop email client for
> Linux, and I've never found one.

Hop over to http://www.intellegit.com/ and download a trial version  :-) 
It's a 30-day time-limited demo - after that, you can use it but it won't
transfer email and more. It's easy to set up - it does its own email
transfer so there's no need to set up fetchmail or anything. However, if you
want to do that, you can - Gemini will also fetch batch files from /var/mail
(or anywhere else) and this is how I've got it set up (fetchmail to procmail
to spamassassin to Gemini). I use the Gemini smtp send, though, rather than
trying to patch it into postfix - there's just no need!

HTH

John
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