Re: [orca-list] Mail client's and orca

[Hermann <meinelisten onlinehome de>]

Scott Rutkowski wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I'm wondering what mail client works best with orca in
> ubuntu?
> I'm hearing people on the list are enjoying the
> accessability of thunderbird compared to evolution. If so,
> is the thunderbird experience similar to that of outlook or
> outlook express?

Did you try Thunderbird under Windows? The Linux version compares best 
to the Windows counterpart.

> Coming over from the windows platform, i'm looking for an
> email client that will support exchange mail as well as
> normal pop3 mail and possibly imap as well.

I didn't see exchange support in Thunderbird, but pop and imap work. 
Exchange can be used in Evolution.

> Any good and bad points and reasons for choosing the client
> your using would be greatly appreciated.
> If the consensis is thunderbird, could someone also please
> tell us how to use apt-get to obtain thunderbird?

Unfortunately you must use the nightly builds of Thunderbird, because 
the 2.x versions, you get over apt-get, are not accessible.
Visit:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-trunk/
to download the latest version. Choose the *.tar.bz2 file in the folder, 
and do after download:
tar xfjv thunderbird*.tar.bz2
Then run from a Gnome-terminal or from the run dialog:
thunderbird/thunderbird
Note: on the same URL you also find a Windows version.
Hermann