Re: [orca-list] thunderbird getting bad to worst, is evolution a good choice?

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I know what you mean about thunderbird getting worse, I decided I had 
enough some time ago. Evolution in my mind wasn't a great experience 
either (some of it was me not liking the way evolution does things 
rather than me hitting accessibility bugs like in thunderbird). For me 
text based email clients are the only way to go on Linux.

You asked some specific questions about how orca might interact, I don't 
know because I always have used text based clients with speakup. I have 
used pine (alpine I believe behaves very similar as its based on pine) 
and cone and with speakup both were very pleasant experiences. I believe 
from others mutt is also very good with speakup.

I don't have the same need for search facilities as my inbox is much 
smaller, so I cannot really say whether alpine or cone would do, but I 
understand mutt is very powerful (the slight extra complexity of mutt 
because of the extra power has been what stopped me using it, cone was 
perfectly adequate for my needs and didn't have such a learning curve).

Michael Whapples
On 09/04/2012 12:40, krishnakant Mane wrote:
> On 09/04/2012, Jason White<jason jasonjgw net>  wrote:
> > krishnakant Mane<krmane gmail com>  wrote:
> > > I have to read and reply a lot of emails every day.
> > > I have a lot of attachments that come my way in form of odt and ods files.
> > > I need to often attach documents myself.
> > > I also need a good serch feature so that I can look at my archives.
> > > With my given requirement, is alpine good or mutt?
> > Either would be fine.
> >
> > Mutt is better if you like regular expressions: you can search and limit the
> > displayed messages via regular expression matching, and there's also now a
> > script that enables you to use Notmuch with Mutt. I haven't tried it yet,
> > but
> > it's on my list of possible enhancements.
> Hi jasen,
> I think one problem with commandline email clients would be that I
> can't have the entire email spoken by Orca?
> if yes, then can I also browse the mail body line by line?
> Secondly, if I choose alpine, what all search featurs are available?
> and finally do I move in the list of emails by up and down arrows?  do
> I hear the subjects like I do in thunderbird?
> are there shortcuts for sorting the mails by date?
> Happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.