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Re: [LUG] Email for newbies - part 2

 

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Recently I wrote about my personal opinions of the various email clients on
> Linux and what I thought were the good and bad points on several of them.
> This seemed to be quite popular and interesting to some of the members.
>
> Yesterday I was using my computer and I suddenly noticed that I had an icon
> on the desktop for the Seamonkey suite. So I decided to have a look at it. I
> had forgotten all about it, though the icon must have been there for months
> and months.
>
> Anyway the result is that for me Seamonkey is the number one of the ones
> that I have tried. It is very easy to set up. When I first ran it I was told
> that there was a new version available. The method of updating is unusual.
> Download the new zipped file, place it in whatever folder you wish. I chose
> /usr/local/bin to keep it separate from my original version. Then simply
> unzip it there.
>
> When I ran it for the first time it offered to add all the email setup from
> my current copy of TBird. I accepted this and found that everything came
> across for me, eg accounts and addresses. I just had to add the message
> filters. As my daughter would say, pimps.
>
> I found that the email section of the suite was very similar to TBird and
> there are plenty of options to customise it as you wish. And best of all
> there are no silly questions about kwallet etc.
>
> There is an included browser so that if I click on a URL in am email it is
> opened very quickly. There is no need to open up Firefox for example. And
> attachments are easy to open, including PDF files.
>
> The address book is easy to use, quite unlike kmail and evolution mail. The
> suite includes a browser, email client, composer, address book and IRC chat.
> However it is extremely simple to use it just for email for example. One of
> the configuration choices is which part of the suite to open on start up.
>
> So far I am well impressed, partly no doubt because I know TBird. I did find
> that adding another account was much more straightforward in Seamonkey
> compared to TBird. Incidentally all my email accounts us IMAP so I still
> have all my history available.
>
> If anyone else has any comments I would be interested to hear them. Now I
> will shut up!
>
> Neil

Again, thanks for that Neil. I have quite a number of linux newbies
(mainly friends) to set up in a few months. All this info will be very
handy then. :-)

Many thanks
Roly :-)

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