Hi
On Saturday 30 June 2012 at 6:05:28 PM, in <mid:57965611.20120630120...@jimkyle.com>, Jim Kyle wrote: > Thursday, June 28, 2012, 3:27:23 PM, you wrote: >> Are such mail clients really so poor as to merit >> keeping a Windows client on a Linux machine? > I've not tried any of them, but for some 4 years now > I've been running a WinXP virtual machine on one Linux > box for the specific purpose of staying with TB! while > going to Linux as my primary system. It works quite > well. I guess once you set it up and forget about it, that's simple enough, so long as your box has sufficient resources to run a virtual machine. I love TB! as my email client, but I was thinking such measures seem like overkill when there are native Linux mailers available. However, I remembered that it took me well over a year of looking around when time permitted and trying two or three mailers at a time, then ditching those I didn't get on with and adding a replacement, before I settled on The Bat! as my MUA in mid-2004. So I kind of get the point. > I do have Thunderbird installed on a separate Linux > box, I've tried Thunderbird two or three times over the years, but never kept with it for more than a couple of days. Somehow, I was never comfortable with it. (-: > and use it primarily for newsgroups Yes, Newsgroups was always something TB! didn't do without some form of Mail-to-News gateway. But it is a mail client not a news client. And I use mailing lists much more than newsgroups - an occasional visit to a web interface to read a newsgroup is not too painful. > and > occasionally for forwarding things to my primary Email > account that feeds the TB! client. I find that to be > simpler than trying to copy and paste things across my > LAN -- it's possible, of course, but somewhat > convoluted. I'm not convinced it *really* is more convoluted to copy/paste across your LAN than to run a Windows email client in a virtual machine on a Linux box. (-; -- Best regards MFPA mailto:expires2...@rocketmail.com There is no snooze button for a cat that wants breakfast Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.42 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
