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

[krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

Hello,
I am thinking of trying mutt after reading one manual.
I only wish to know if I can use orca with it?
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.


On 09/04/2012, Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com> wrote:
> 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.