Re: Recommendations for Email client?
I can't believe no one else has recommended netscape. netscape 4 does support IMAP and
in fact I think it's a pretty sweet mail client. (No, I'm not a unix newbie. I've been
writing unix software for over five years and used various character-mode mail
clients.) These days I have to write NT software but with netscape I can just copy all
my folders and address book from machine to laptop and in fact use *the same files* on
my laptop whether I'm booted in Windoze or Linux. Now that is cool in my opinion.
True, netscape is not as configurable as mutt, but sometimes I like to send mail with
actual formatting like bold, italic, etc. Anyway, there you have it. Now all Linux
netscape needs is drag-and-drop...
Jon Burchmore wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I currently use MS Outlook 98 on a Windows PC to read my Email (I get
> about 600-700 messages/day from various mailing lists). I would *really*
> like to switch over to a Debian-based solution, but I haven't been
> able to find a mail client that supports my needs under Linux:
>
> 1. IMAP support
> 2. PGP integration
> 3. X (preferably gtk) based UI
> 4. The ability to support multiple mail servers/accounts.
>
> So far I've had the best results with Netscape Communicator's Email client,
> but it frequently craps out when accessing some of my larger folders (12,000+
> messages), and is unable to handle PGP at all.
>
> Outlook, spawn of the devil and all, has some features that I really like. I
> can open up an Email message fullscreen and skip to the next/previous message
> with a single hotkey (Netscape Communicator does this, other clients such as
> Balsa do not).
>
> I have a grand total of 3 Email accounts (two IMAP and one POP3). Netscape
> will let me use the two IMAP accounts, but it doesn't allow more than one
> Email account when using POP3.
>
> So, what does everyone here use? Should I just wait for projects such as
> Balsa or Aeleron to get better? Should I punt and just use PINE under
> an Xterm? Is there a way to integrate PGP into Netscape Communicator?
>
> -Jon Burchmore
>
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