Re: MUAs that compare with Outlook (your chance to show how much better Linux is than MS!!)

[Eric E Moore <e.e.moore@shef.ac.uk>]

>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Sebold <csebold@livingtorah.org> writes:

Charles> On 21 Tammuz 5761, Kurt Lieber wrote:
>> So, here's a list of my requirements and I'm hoping you guys can
>> point me to an MUA that meets them.  If so, I'll gladly switch over
>> to Linux full-time and forswear Microsoft forever. :)

Charles> Except for calendaring - Emacs + Gnus + BBDB + gnus-pers.el
Charles> to enable one to switch "accounts" easily while composing
Charles> posts/emails.  Emacs has calendaring but currently can't
Charles> share meeting info, etc. like Outlook can.

I was going to suggest gnus, but seems I was beaten to it.  (I wasn't
sure about the preview pane/show fisst 3 lines)

Charles> But you seem very wedded to the _way_ Outlook does things; I
Charles> can almost guarantee that the fact that Gnus can do all this,
Charles> doesn't mean that you'll like it.  Extensive customization is
Charles> possible and easy but one must learn a little Lisp to do it.

Also true.  Of course there are features GNUS has, I don't know if
outlook does, that I think are worthwhile:

* A newsreader
* Excellent threading support (don't know how outlook compares)
* Scoring of messages, allowing you to more easily pick out important
  ones
* Automated scoring, if you want (didn't read the last 12 messages
  with that subject line, probably don't want this one either)
* The ability to reformat badly formatted messages
* PGP/GPG integration if you want it with mailcrypt
* A truly kick-ass editor for editing outgoing mails
* Prolly others...

Just trying to point out that while you can't make
emacs/gnus/bbdb/gnus-pers.el outlook, there's probably stuff it does
Outlook doesn't, or doesn't as well.

Charles> Perhaps Emacs + VM + BBDB would do what you want more
Charles> precisely; not sure, haven't tried it in a while.

Just switched from vm, and would reccomend gnus :) Never really used
outlook, so can't speak as to whether it's more like outlook.  It
doesn't provide (as well, certainly) the "one screen which lists how
many new emails I have in all my folders" which is why I switched to
gnus.

  -Eric