On 4 Apr, Rachel Greenham wrote:
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 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...)
>
Well, the pine interface is not what I would consider apalling but
thats for another place and time :). I still believe that we probably
do not have truly robust email client on the order of something like
pegasus mail; but I really never liked pegasus mail either. I truly
like a little win32 emailer called The_Bat which offers some great
customizability. For my console needs, mutt seems to do okay and in
fact more than okay. Still, tkrat offers me the group of features that
I want in an email client overall. Pressed to it, I could name feature
sets or UI enhancements for almost any product. Tkrat is no exception.
Perhaps thats why postillion was done. I have never used postillion but
understand it is quite nifty. I tried compiling it and it has some
tcl/tk issues under suse 6.
I dont know about acorns though so cannot comment on that. Another one
on the drawing board is simply called "M". Its featured on the gnome
website in their software map. I have tried balsa but had some
problems with its interface and fonts.
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Michael Perry
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