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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 :-) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq