Re: [orca-list] email suggestions (was: Using Linux everyday)

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

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You mentioned mail as being your particular challenge.  Well, when
I've used both Mutt and Thunderbird interchangably, I always find
myself falling back to mutt.  I can plow through several hundred
e-mails in an hour ot two with mutt every time.  I can keep separate
folders, locally and with IMAP on my gmail server.  Mutt also supports
configurable macros and filters for volume management.  I love the
program.  For my position right now, nothing could be better than mutt
for the mail.  I like thunderbird for dealing with HTML mail and
clicking of links but I can even handle that with mutt if I want to so
there's several ways to go about these things.

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:11:26AM -0600, John G. Heim wrote:
> From: "Jason White" <jason jasonjgw net>
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:10 PM
>
>
> > John G. Heim <jheim math wisc edu> wrote:
> >
> > > Really, what I think you're asking is if orca is good enough so that
> > > a blind person can use linux every day in their job. I don't know
> > > about that. I only know that I haven't manage it yet. The hold up
> > > for me is primarily mail. I haven't been able to become efficient
> > > enough in evolution to swtich to linux/orca full time.
> >
> > Have you tried Mutt or Alpine?
>
> Hmm... Intersting idea. I have used both mutt and alpine in a
> terminal window because part of my job is to support those
> applications. I didn't think it would be efficient to use a
> character based program but I never really gave it a serious try. I
> really would like to find some way to read my mail in linux that is
> as quick and easy as outlook express. I'm willing to try anything.
>
> As a systems administrator, I probably spend 99% of my time doing
> just 4 things, web browsing, editing text, starting/stopping servers
> at the command line, and responding to email. For web browsing, I've
> pretty much been able to switch from jaws and Internet Explorer to
> orca and firefox. That transition was fairly painless. So was the
> transition from TextPad to gedit. And of course, a terminal window
> in gnome works even better than openssh or putty. But I've really
> struggled with mail
>
>
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