On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, darren chamberlain wrote:
> * Andrew M. Langmead <aml at world.std.com> [2003-01-03 11:47]:
> > The unicode support is nice. Your foreign spam comes in its proper
> > script, rather than funny escape characters that mess up for text
> > display (like frequently happens with mutt)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> ...only if it isn't setup correctly.
Yes, when properly configured, it is sent directly to /dev/null. It does
not pass Go and it does not collect FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETEEN MILLION
UNITED STATES DOLLARS from a hidden cache in Lagos. :)
But in any case, the point is moot -- everyone should use Pine. Mutt usage
is acceptable but will be treated with deep, deep suspicion. ;)
I spent my first six months or so of OSX time using Mail.app, and as GUI
mailers go I like it as much as any other one I've used -- as Andrew and
others have noted, the integration with the system is really slick, and it
plays well with IMAP, SSL mail, multiple accounts, etc pretty well (a lot
of others only seem to want to to POP *spit*, and/or can't handle multiple
mail accounts). Further, subjectively, unlike a lot of other GUI mail
applications Mail.app doesn't get in my way, as most of the others do --
Outlook, Notes, Mozilla [yes, even Mozilla] etc all make my skin crawl.
Eudora on the other hand is also not bad (I used the Windows version for a
year at an old job, and it was acceptable), and the old Classic version of
Outlook Express is actually really good (haven't tried the OSX version, if
there is one by now, but considering how awful Outlook is the pleasantness
of OE/Mac by comparison is striking). IMO these are all okay but I'm still
far more productive [1] with Pine. For the rare occasion when a full blown
GUI mailer, I don't care to give more disc space to something else when
Mail.app does the job pretty nicely.
IMO, of course.
[1] for some values of productive
--
Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
maintainance, n.
The replacement of one set of error states by another.
Ideally, the latter should be nonintersecting with, and more
catastrophic than, the former. In routine maintainence the replacement
is applied on a regular basis, so that DOWNTIME increases in an
orderly, controlled, monotonic sequence. The system gracefully
converges to a state of OBSOLESCENCE on a date convenient for the
marketing deparment.
-- from _The Computer Contradictionary_, Stan Kelly-Bootle, 1995
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