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On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Roland Tarver <roland.tarver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 :-) > Perhaps you should turn it into an article for the lug (or other) sites? roly :-) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq