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   Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 20:08:16 +0000   
   From: Bernard Peek    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Wanting to change from XP to Ubuntu and keep using Turnpike   
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   In message <20070301122201.1fc8aef3@oscar-sled.homeunix.net>, Malcolm    
    writes   
   >On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:58:29 +0000   
   >David Aldred  wrote:   
   >   
   >> - Ability to treat mailing lists as newsgroups   
   >> - Simple, *really* simple, killfiling, together with quite   
   >> sophisticated scoring as well if you want it.  This also applies to   
   >> mailing lists treated as pseudo-newsgroups, of course   
   >> - Extreme configurability - almost anything can be turned on or off,   
   >> or set to prompt you before doing things;   
   >> - Automatic (configurably, as above) moving of mail to a 'filed'   
   >> folder when a reply has been sent.   
   >>   
   >> I've been using Kontact (i.e KMail/Knode) for the last two years, and   
   >> whilst it's certainly functional it's missing most of the above, and   
   >> is a little too much like an Outlook clone for my liking....   
   >>   
   >> (In favour of Kontact (and I guess many Linux clients), integrating   
   >> local spam filtering is relatively easy (I can't remember ever   
   >> getting it working with TP), and I'd have had no idea how to   
   >> configure a full  local newsserver with TP, so would have been   
   >> stuffed when NTL kept losing moderation flags on some of my favourite   
   >> groups).   
   >>   
   >> So, guys, anything out there which can really replace Turnpike - or,   
   >> come to that, anyone with programming skills looking for a project?   
   >>   
   >Hi   
   >Have a look at claws-mail http://www.claws-mail.org/   
      
   It's got a lot of features that I'd like to see in TP. It doesn't appear    
   to be able to use alternative profiles though.   
      
      
      
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