On 20-Feb-99 Tim Hanson wrote:
>
> In my movement away from Windows, I'm ready to move my email.
>
> I'm looking for a client email program for my single user desktop
> system. I don't need anything elaborate like sendmail;
sendmail is not for composing and "sending" (i.e. as from the program
you use to compose the mail). It is for sending in the sense of carrying
out the actual transmission of the mail. It is a background service.
You can get away without it if your client email program can itself
deal with sending your mail off to some mailrouter, but you will usually
need to be connected to the Net (online) at the time, for this to work.
Otherwise you need sendmail or equivalent.
Think of your client email program as the equivalent of writing a letter
on paper ("compose") then putting it into the stamped addressed envelope,
sealing this, and dropping it into the mailbox ("send").
Think of sendmail as the postal service which comes round in a van,
collects what's in the mailbox, takes it the sorting office which then
forwards it off to other sorting offices (responsibility for ultimate
delivery somewhere down the line).
> I noticed XFmail on the disk. It has a decent l&f, but lots of
> programs have that. I don't want to configure it and start taking
> email into it only to find out later it has some unacceptable
> limitation.
I think XFMail is a very nice email client with a lot of very useful
features, and we have been using various versions of it for a few years.
Separate documentation is very minimal, but the "online help" is
quite comprehensive though it is not always easy to make out what
it means until you have got used to the program. My wife, who also
uses Pegasus Mail at her Dept, likes XFMail better.
I'm not aware of "unacceptable limitations" though there are a some
things I'd like it to have (e.g. open two folders simultaneously;
click-select several messages and forward them as a bunch to someone by a
single "send", directly include one message as an attachment to another,
etc) but these are extras. Basically I reckon it's very good.
Hope this helps,
Ted.
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