[olug] Re[2] good GUI MUA

[Phil Brutsche]

On Tue, 2001-09-04 at 23:23, Brian Roberson wrote:
> Ok, Mahogany sucks.

Not the word I would use, but based on the last version I used back in
July, I would have to agree.

> ( IMHO ) not only was it not intuitive AT ALL,

Intuitive is in the eye of the beholder.  The user interface design
class at school taught me that :)

> but it decided to move messages from all my imap folders to a local folder
> called "New Mail" .... I am _NOT_ impressed, I would expect that behavior
> only if I setup a pop* mailbox, not imap! what is the beauty behind imap?
> server side mailbox, leave it there, its safer than a local machines disk,

Preaching to the choir, dude.  IMAP rocks!

(/me looks down at mail/file/web server with tape backup & mirrored 40GB
hard drives)

> and a whole lot more convenient.... has anyone tried outlook express

OE?

*blech*

IMO the only email client more broken is Netscape Communicator 4.0x ->
4.7x.

Ximian's Evolution is pretty slick and is the GUI email client closest
to sanity across the 3 operating sytems (unix windows & mac) I've been
investigating email clients for.

> under wine? I have successfully gotten the notes R5 client running 
> under wine now, that works almost flawlessly ( other than optimizing 
> my fonts )

Nope.  It's been soooo long since I've tried to use Wine...

-- 

Phil


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