Re: email and newsreaders

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj helixcode com>]

Spruce 1 2 3 5 6 (4 and 7 are kinda primitive)

Also keep your eyes out for Evolution when 1.0 is released

Also, Pronto doesn't do IMAP. Nor does Kmail last I saw, but then it's been
a while since I checked.

Jeff

On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Tobias Weber wrote:
> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 23:57:27 +0200
> To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> From: "Tobias Weber" <towb@knuut.de>
> Subject: Re: email and newsreaders
> 
> Hi,
> As I'm currently in the process of switching to linux I did some 
> "research", too. Here is a list of features I found important, 
> numbers indicate that the program does NOT support it:
> 
> 1 Copy text from the message reader to the clipboard
> 2 Mark Messages unread
> 3 Copy Mails between Folders
> 4 Address Book
> 5 Imap
> 6 Sorting
> 7 PGP
> 
> netscape 7
> kmail 5 (4 is very primitive)
> balsa 1 2 3 6 7 (4 uses GnomeCard, very good!)
> mahogany 2 6 7 (5 is supported, but never worked here)
> pronto 1 5 (Address book is not that good)
> postilion 3 (This is offspring of TkRat)
> tkrat 3 (very stable and feature complete. My Choice)
> 
> The list is sorted by my interface look/feel ranking, but as with 
> most unix software memorizing some keyboard command makes 
> you faster with eg tkrat than clicking around in netscape ever could.
> 
> All tests were performed with the most recent versions (as of July 
> 11) and all comments are IMHO.
> 
> --
>   Tobias Weber
> 
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