On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 11:51 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 07 June 2010, Piscium wrote: > >----- Original Message ---- > > > >> From: Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> > >> To: pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > >> Sent: Mon, 7 June, 2010 12:20:44 > >> Subject: Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] difference between Gnome Sound > >> Preferences and PulseAudio Volume Control > > > >As many of the developer are > > > >> subscribed to 40+ mailing lists, reading > > > >the messages and separating out what > > > >> you are interested in, verses what > > > >is irrelevent to you is often tricky. > > > >-------------------------- > >Thanks for the explanation. I am currently subscribed to 8 lists on this > > email account, much less than the 40+ you mention. Yet I am a bit weary > > of setting up an email client and downloading to my PC all these emails, > > as often I only read the headers. > > > >I am very happy with Yahoo with respect to reading emails, and I have set > > up rules so that emails are routed on arrival to different folders > > according to the list they came from. The problem is that Yahoo, as seen, > > is not suitable for bottom posting because it messes up indenting. > > Moreover there is no way to specify that you want a line break at 72 > > characters, for example. > > > >I have an account at Hotmail and it is much worse than Yahoo with respect > > to plain text emails. So my question is if there is a good email website > > for this purpose. Is gmail any good? > > I use gmail, but not as a webmail service, I pop it with fetchmail, which > hands it off to procmail, procmail runs it through Spamassassin, puts the > spam in /dev/null and the survivors in /var/spool/mail/$user. Kmail gets it > from there and sorts to the mailiing list folders, about 39 ATM. > I like gmail's own filters for prior sorting (I then grab through IMAP, since POP can only grab from the inbox). Just another option to consider.
