On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:30:25 -0500 Jan Schaumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 21:27:55 -0800 > > Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:53:26PM -0600, Jeffrey Taylor > > > wrote:> I am looking for GUI e-mail clients that work well > > > with> Blackbox. > > > > I was away from Linux for a while. I am back now on Blackbox. > > Something hasn't changed though: You ask for a GUI mail client > > and people recommend mutt. > > It depends on your itnerpretation of "graphical". I find lots of > colors, a thread-tree etc at least somewhat "graphical" ;-P > > Seriously, if somebody asks for a general GUI application, and I > know that a non-GUI application will work better, I will suggest > it. > > If you _absolutely_ *must* have something to point and click the > rodetn against, try Balsa -- it seems like a nice client. Must? There are no "must" in MUA preferences. It is a choice! I prefer Sylpheed which has a well known interface. It works like mail clients do on several platforms which makes it easy to learn and use for a lot of people. That doesn't mean that mutt is bad or sucks or anything. What makes Linux great is that there are options! Some guy on this list even called me stupid off list for liking a GUI mailer, which is what most people use for email regardless of OS. I do not understand why this is such a big deal? > > > Linux really needs good robust GUI software, especially an > > e-mail client. Sylpheed is very close to be a professional tool. > > Why? E-Mail is, as news, a text-medium. Because a lot of people like to have a GUI. They like to point and click. Why shouldn't they get it? I do not understand this. I have no problems with the fact that people like to use console based software, I even use it myself (MC as my default file manager), but I, and a lot of others, even AFTER having used mutt, prefers the GUI ones like Sylpheed (and Balsa, but Balsa doesn't handle multiple accounts well). Shouldn't people be able to choose? Aren't options a good thing? > > > Next time someone ask me for a good wm I should probably not say > > "Blackbox", but rather "the console".. ;) > > screen(1) might be a suitable replacement ;) Or even KDE for most new Linux users.. ;) > > -Jan > > -- > http://www.netmeister.org > http://guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu/~jschauma/ > -- Christian Dysthe http://www.dysthe.net ICQ: 3945810 Registered Linux User #228949 "Everyone ought to have a Lower East Side in their life" -Irving Berlin-
