Re: [orca-list] Evolution mail to access mail

[hackingKK <hackingkk gmail com>]

On Thursday 18 February 2010 02:54 PM, leena chourey wrote:
> Hello List
>
> I am trying to work with browser and mail access using ORCA.
>
> As I have tried to use Orca with various mail engines like gmail, 
> yahoo, rediffmail and observed that its not working properly with 
> these, may be the structure/interface is different for each. 

Yes, different interfaces have different problems.  For gmail, it is 
recommended that you use basic htmo.  Yahoo seemed to be very accessible 
specially after I started to use the headings list and linked list 
extentions.
But using a mail client is the best approach.

> Then I have shifted to Evolution mail for accessing mail with 
> different mail engine, because it give a common interface to use.
> Here it is to be confirm is this observation and approach is correct? 
> Or am I going in wrong direction with wrong reason.

I think you must use thunderbird, firstly it has the same level of 
accessibility like firefox provides because it uses zul engine for both 
these applications.
And I was also an evolution user but shifted to thunderbird version 3 
and I am totally satisfied with it.
I am impressed with its small foot print compared to heavy memory 
consumtion of evolution.  Further more it is really smooth and responds 
very well with orca.
The only thing I find difficult with thunderbird is that it does not 
help to read mails in a thread if I don't concentrate.
For example I am writing a reply to your mail and so your message should 
have > sign prepended to every line.
But thunderbird is not letting that happen.  May be it is some thing to 
do with orca or thunderbird I don't know but I did not get any solution 
even after asking again and again.
But it is not such a major problem and can't be considred to be a 
show-stopper bug.

Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.