Re: [Evolution] Evolution not quite Eudora yet

[John Holbrook <jholbrook valleyfirst com>]

Have you tried sylpheed yet?

Its by far the greatest e-mail program for Linux. Especially if
you subscribe to multiple mailing lists, etc.

sylpheed.good-day.net




On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:57:33 -0400
"Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com> wrote:

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> On 13-Jun-2002/17:32 -0400, grok <grok sprint ca> wrote:
> > > So, saying 'just like Eudora' doesn't mean much to any of
> > us, for the> most part.
> >
> > Surprising. I thought many 'power' users preferred Eudora to
> > dreck Outlook. This has never been a 'numbers game' for me.
>
> A lot of people who have been handling lots of Internet mail
> since before 1996 have used Eudora. People who started later,
> or did most of their mail at work, or have not needed to handle
> lots of mail, probably used whatever was convenient. In a lot
> of cases that was Outlook/Outlook Express.
>
> An old email power user like me loved the configurability of
> Eudora. By the tinm Outlook/OE got anywhere near as good as
> Eudora, I'd been using Eudora for several years and wasn't
> about to switch. One showstopper for me was the way Outlook
> stored data in opaque file formats. My email and contact data
> is too important to me to allow it to get locked up in some
> proprietary file format. Eudora still had the edge on Outlook
> for my needs so I continued to use it until I switched to
> Linux.
>
> When I switched to Linux the only app I really missed was
> Eudora. I used Pine for a while because it was fast and good
> enough. Now I use Evo at work for the same reasons. But at
> home, Mutt is king.
>
> It would be good if the Evo developers had experience with
> Eudora. It was the best Windows mail client that I've ever
> used. It is a great tool for email power users.
>
>
> Tony
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