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Re: [LUG] Email clients for newbies

 

On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:02:43 +0000
Anthony Williams wrote:

> On 09/03/11 15:55, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> >
> >> I do want to see lots of people move over to Linux. The choice of
> >> packages is important. I suspect that some will be looking for a
> >> reason to move back to that other system. An email client that
> >> seems unnecessarily complicated could be enough.
> >>
> >> Comments
> >
> > Why burden them with an email client? Get them setup with a decent
> > webmail system and forget it. Then they have no local emails
> > that'll get lost, can access it from anywhere, and when they're
> > ready, transparently use a smartphone/tablet, etc with imap client
> > to access the same email & folders, etc.
> 
> If you use an IMAP client like Thunderbird then you have the same set
> of benefits. Plus, Thunderbird is much nicer than any webmail client
> I've used (including SquirrelMail).
> 
> Anthony

The whole "where do I put deleted messages" thing can rear its head
though.  Particularly if you're viewing the same IMAP account on two
different computers with two different clients (or even the same client
but configured differently in two locations).

Grant.

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