On Wednesday, 24.08.2005 at 16:24 -0500, Steve Block wrote: > >Yes, I've read a lot in the twenty minutes since writing the above. I > >use thunderbird though in linux, solaris and windows. No matter, I'll > >deal with it. Maybe I'll look at the much lauded mutt... > > Part of the problem with this whole thing is that Thunderbird is a > truly awful mail client. Yes it generally works and yes it is cross > platform but it is very poorly put together. > > Besides the list header stuff it threads poorly, defaults to sending > html messages, and does not default to using SSL even when the server > supports it (how hard is it to check for SSL capability of a server > when setting up a new account). It also has some really screwy IMAP > behavior. I've noticed that too. I think Thunderbird is a good compromise between an easy-to-use client and a secure client. For non-technical users, I usually set them up with Thunderbird, but I make a number of changes to the default config before letting them loose. Including the things you mention above: i.e. I switch off "send HTML mail" and I switch on SSL for IMAP ... :-) Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature