Re: email and newsreaders

["Steve Cox" <>]

> Desmond Rivet wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I currently use Netscape Messanger as my news and email program. I've
> > noticed that there seems to be a rather large number of these types of
> > programs for the GNOME. Is there any compelling reason for me to
> > switch to one of them?
> > 
> > Is it just that Netscape is not GNOME compliant, but these apps are? Or
> > are they fundamenrtally better on a deeper level?
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I also use Netscape, and have tried many times to escape (don't like the
> crashes), but nothing else seems to be up to scratch.  I have tried kfm
> as a browser, and it's certainly more stable than netscape and has some
> nice features, but needs to be regularly restarted because of a major
> memory leak.  I've tried many email clients including kmail, pronto (ex
> CSCmail) but keep coming back to Netscape as the others have some
> irritation (mostly they don't handle MIME too well, and so far pronto
> has been close but it puts out too many internal errors to make me feel
> safe, and it's just made lots of duplicate mail entries).
> 
> Has anyone used Mew?  Any comment?
> 
> So far I haven't come accross an email client (never mind combined news
> reader and browser) thats as effective overall as Netscape.  Sad.
> 
> Andy Lees
> 
> 


Well, I spent ages looking for a decent gui email client and news reader.

For news, PAN is the Dogs B*****s (rude UK slang). Perfect.....

Email is a different matter. When Evolution is complete, then it'll be one 
of the best but for now I'll use PINE. It's a console client but under 
gnome-term it has mouse capabilities. It'll do all the folder sorting and 
stuff and limited threading. Emacs and XEmacs clients are good if you're an 
Emacs fan but takes a while to get used too. Others swear by MUTT. A lot 
will depend on if you use POP servers or you've set up a local mail server 
with fetchmail etc.

The lastest KMAIL (shhhhhhhh......) for KDE v2 beta is supposed to be good 
with threading and so on, but I've yet to try it.

I've tried some of the older gnome & X clients, balsa, mahogany etc. but 
they're not to my liking - but this is all personal preferences anyway.


Go on, use a console client - it'll put hairs on your chest :-)

Steve