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On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 00:02, Anton Channing wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I will continue to use Thunderbird as my windows email client, for the few pop accounts I want to keep over here.
I suggest you look at IMAP then. Thus you can arrange for all mail to go into and be stored in a set of folders on one machine - I'd expect the Linux one - and be accessible therefrom by as many clients as you care to use on as many machines as you like. An alternative is to choose a client to run on Linux, and then remote its display to whatever machine you are using as a terminal, using eg VNC. I've been looking at both for work. Currently I use Evolution, having I think run up against a limit to the number of filters one can support in Kmail, or something curious in a particular installation.
It is a vast improvement over Outlook, which I won't touch with a barge pole. If anything, my problem with Thunderbird is that its a bit too much like Outlook in some respects. The two features I would like to see in it (and they might be there for all I know, but I can't find them easilly if they are there), that I got used to in KMail, is I don't want html in messages, but can find no way disable this in incoming mail, and being able to set a default reply identity for folders, rather than having to set up loads of seperate identities with there own set of folders. KMail is much tidier to use for someone with multiple pop3 accounts. In my opinion anyway. As for Firefox, I love Firefox. I have no issues with it at all. If Mozilla could get there email client as friendly as they've got Firefox, I'd be 100% happy with them.All subsequent products seem to be rock solid on both Redhat and Debian. I have seen Netscape be a tad unstable on MS Windows, but I'm pretty sure that is "just old MS Windows", I've used Thunderbird on Windows 2000 for a test of a 3rd party email system - put through some seriously big amounts of spam and such like, and it "just worked". The "Junk filtering" in Thunderbird was outperforming one of the commercial services being tested.Oh yeah, its junk filtering is great. If it put suspect emails in a seperate folder by default, like gmail, then it would be even better.Indeed Mozilla seem to have a very solid approach to applications these days, feature rich, cross platform, robust, even the bloat is going. But I fear people are trying Evolution for projects "because it looks like Outlook" and the features like Calendaring are "all there", but Mozilla are turning these things out, slightly slower, but much better quality in my experience.Considering Outlook is so bad, it seems strange to me that projects would want to model themselves on it. I really can't think of an email client I've used that is as bad as Outlook. My opinion of course, but emulating Outlook is not what I'm looking for in a good email client. Anton -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.
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