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Michael Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On 4 Apr, Rachel Greenham wrote:
> >
> > It's just crashed on me once too often while I was writing an email. This
> > is 4.5 as comes with SuSE 6 by the way and is probably the least reliable
> > piece of "production" software I have ever used. I'm almost tempted to
> > use Outlook out of spite, but it really would be spite as I have a
> > perfectly good email client here on my Acorn and I don't know why I ever
> > stopped using it.
You know what else I like about being back on my Acorn mailer? Decent
reformatting of quotes! :-)
> Agreed that Netscape is bad. Not agreed that there are no reliable or well
> done email clients. I have used pine for a number of years and perhaps
> have gotten used to its interface. I really like the virtual folders
> feature and the level of customizability.
I'm well aware of PINE's feature set. In terms of functionality it's pretty
definitive, but its user interface *is* apalling and although I *could* get
used to it, I don't want to. :-) One thing I've thought of doing is to rip
into the PINE source code and abstract the functionality into an API (if it
isn't already, I haven't looked yet, but I guess not or people would be using
it) and use that to write a decent GUI-based email client. Major project
though, especially as I haven't done *any* X development yet. :-} All my
C/C++ GUI development experience is on Acorns. My current skillset would
point me more to doing a Java/DB style solution though it would have more
system dependencies (Java, Postgres or similar...)
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Rachel
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