Thanks for the link. In our earliest days on the (dial-up) internet we have used Eudora and Pegasus, and I missed them when we then shifted to Outlook. I think it is time to revisit, certainly, and I think DH will investigate this for me. Mutt was a mystery to me, but now I have googled it, here is a link for anyone else who was mystified as to what it might be! - plus some comments and another link
Online html official manual for Mutt stable version. This is the primary documental source for learning Mutt. www.mutt.org/doc/manual/ Mutt is a text-based e-mail client for Unix-like systems. It was originally written by Michael Elkins in 1995 and released under the GNU General Public The best e-mail package for Unix is mutt. Don't use pine for e-mail! It was developed for people who are afraid of computers, not sophisticated computer A guide to Mutt, also with screenshots, by the University of Alberta (Department of Computing Science). ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/resources/mutt/ Hi Rowena, I *think* there is a checkbox option in the preferences dialog to enable/disable message compacting in Outlook. I could be wrong about this, as I haven't looked at Outlook since I had to "fix it" for a friend a few months ago, but I seem to remember that... It is frequently said by geeky types that "all email clients suck, but mutt sucks the least". I agree with that. Setting it up is daunting for a non-geek, though. But Eudora is very good, the older qualcomm version like Wayne uses. I know Thunderbird is not as feature complete as Outlook (and it can be a bit slow), but Eudora pretty much has it all. You can still download the qualcomm release from http://www.eudora.com/download/ for free. Cheers, indi On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:05:31PM +0900, Rowena wrote: > Yes, I put up my hand for deserving funny looks for using Outlook. > DH gave me Mozilla Thunderbird, but there was some feature in Outlook I > used a lot (forget what just now) that Mozilla didn't have, so I switched > back. > > We back up the whole computer every week to a LaCie or Lacey device; apart > from that I don't back them up anywhere else. The dialogue box keeps > popping up offering to compact my messages, even when they have just been > compacted, repeatedly throughout the day. I deleted thousands of old > emails recently, but it still wants to compact everything. > > In theory I disapprove of Outlook. In practice, well ... ... > > Rowena > > > I am surprised that you use outlook. Always thought it was one > of the stupid ones. > > Tell me what happens when you back up your messages. -- WARNING: This message may contain sarcasm, dark humor, disagreement, and honesty. In case of headache, elevated blood pressure, violent thoughts and/or rage, please discontinue use. -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
