Rachel Greenham wrote:
>
> Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> >
> > Steven T. Hatton [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > > If the Reply To field is set to [EMAIL PROTECTED] messenger will reply to the
> > > list. It works that way on other lists. I am not an expert on setting up
> > > mailing list, but I am sure LINUX CAN DO THAT TOO!
> >
> > Sigh. Changing the reply-to field is a bad idea, that's why this list
> > doesn't do it anymore. There are simply better ways to take care of this,
> > one of them being a mailer that has a list-reply function, or proper use of
> > mail-followup-to.
>
> <rant>
>
> Well quite. Netscape doesn't seem to do this, but in other respects is
> the only usable mail client I've come across for Linux - which isn't
> saying much, and is quite a shock. Vast numbers of mail clients, pretty
> much all of them either an apalling user experience (eg: PINE),
> completely incomprehensible (eg: Applix, StarOffice) or just plain
> incapable (eg: KMail). Netscape is hardly ideal (not being able to
> handle more than one POP3 source is a disaster), but it's the best of a
> bad bunch. I'm on a large number of high-volume mailing lists and I'm
> used to Messenger Pro on RISC OS which does this sort of thing perfectly
> and is one of the two reasons why I still use my Acorn when I'm in its
> presence (the other being Zap).
>
> </rant>
I agree with most of that. I personally dig PINE, but I'm into that
kinky stuff. It's only really usable though if you use fetchmail, do
the local spool thing and all that. What I really want is Eudora Pro
for Linux. I would pay twice the Windows price.
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