Re: Mail clients (and text editors)
I switched from Eudora and Pegasus in Windows to
Elm and now mutt in Linux. I found the transition to be
painless, although I did miss the folder handling in the
early days. I did run Pegasus with WINE for a while, but
made the final switch because I wanted to get away from
the non-standard mailbox format.
I thought I'd try Sylpheed after seing mention of it on this
list, but never felt like configuring another client. Now that
I've read it doesn't play nice with mutt, I'll just remove it.
I'm a pfe fan from way back. I still install it on any Windows
machine I'm forced to use for an extended period of time. For
most quick-and-dirty editing under Linux, I run whatever vi
clone I have. When the mood strikes me, I use emacs ( for instance
as my mail editor with mutt ).
Bob
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:38:37PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> My head is swimming a bit trying to limit my choices of mail clients to test.
>
> I'm wondering if someone can help narrow my choices.
>
> Background: Like many, I'm coming from a Windows environment. I've got
> three linux machines under my desk and for a year now I've booted Win98
> used basically only browsers and Eudora (3.0) on my Win98 machine, and
> spent all day with SecureCRT ssh'ed into my Linux machines and to other
> machines I work with.
>
> So, for graphical mail clients: Knowing that I'm coming from a simple life
> with Eudora (and have never liked Outlook), any comments or simple
> overviews of the following:
>
> I know it's a lot to ask, but please no flame wars on which client stinks
> or is best. I guess I'm looking for someone with a similar history as mine
> that can say "try this", or "Evolution is cool, but it's too huge and slow..."
>
> Also, on my home machines (I think) I'd like to switch to IMAP to make
> managing mail from different locations a bit better. I know very little
> about IMAP. Currently I think I've got about 50,000 messages in my Eudora
> folders, so I'm not clear if IMAP will be slow working with that many
> messages.
>
> And not related to email, anyone have a replacement suggestion (other than
> Emacs ;) for my old basic friend on the windows side of Program File Editor
> (pfe)?
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