Ronald G Minnich wrote:
how is it working out for people? I have been using Sirius Cybernetics
Thunderbird, which was supposed to be some kind of Miracle Mail
program, and am finding it to be less than perfect. Actually, it kinda
sucks. It has an autocomplete that is wrong in a very annoying
fashion, since it is usually right, but goes wrong in very strange
ways, and your mail to andrey goes to andrew before you know it -- you
type andrey, it autocompletes in some strange way, it ignores the 'y'
-- I've tested this a few times. Happy People Movers have nothing on
the Sirius Cybernetics Thunderbird mail program!
It has a way of deciding that once the network is gone, and you send,
you can never retry the send again in some cases without exiting the
damned thing (it just happened again while editing this message: "the
mail server is gone. It won't be back ever again. It's hopeless. I
won't even try. You humans really enjoy this kind of thing, don't you?
I'm so depressed. I'll just go in a corner and rust" -- I wish!).
The list goes on, but I am overall finding that it is a very
happy-puppy like piece of software, anxious to get in there and do
things for you, making you trip over it, and most of the time making
you want to tell it to shut up and go hide in a corner before you get
out a rolled-up newspaper.
I especially like the way, when viewing messages, you hit 'delete' to
kill the message and move on, and it somehow loses track of what it
was doing, so it's no longer pointing to any message, and you have to
grab the mouse and find a message to select so you can proceeed.
Weird. The gnome library seems to have a lot of this strange corner
case behavior. (the list goes on .... it's interesting to have to
resize ethereal windows so you can get the vertical scrollbar to
realize that you just traced 10,000 packets, and want to see more than
the 12 currently shown)
What I want is a mail reader that will ... oh, never mind, I think I
want the macos x mail reader. But who knows, maybe that's as bad as
all the others.
how easy is it to read mail, refile mail, search mail, etc. Any
comments on usability? If you do like it, what other mail clients have
you used? Inquiring, happy-puppy-fatigued minds want to know!
thanks
ron
At work and for my lists i use mozilla thunderbird which sucks - but
less than other
stuff that can view html. I wish i could turn off all fonts. I hate fonts.
For my personal mail it's pine, which sucks but feels like home.
-- Marina Brown
