Glenn Miller wrote: > On 25 Feb 2002, Ben Bucksch was seen to have posted this wee note into > netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news, to which I have responded as follows: > >> You say that Mozilla Mailnews is not much better than 4.x. The changes >> between Mozilla Mailnews and 4.x *are* dramatic - it is a completely >> different application. > > Um, does it look different? Hardly!
Just some things that come to my mind that make Mailnews *much* better than 4NC 4.x: - multiple pop3/imap/smtp accounts, you can select the different accounts on the fly. - different colors for different quoting levels - a correct signature is handled specially (different color, cut off when replying). - collected addresses address book. - flawless line-wrapping (NC 4.x mangled quoted text when you re-edited a mail in the Unsent Messages folder - this does not occur anymore). - excellent MIME support. - with knowledge of CSS you can do almost anything with Mailnews, changing things the way you like (colors, fonts, links and such). - plaintext tags (*bold*, /italic/, _underline_). - graphical smileys. - freely configurable attribution line (instead of "<Someone> wrote:"). The only thing I miss from NC 4.x is the following: - reference headers. - clickable message-ids (news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] would open the referred message in NC 4.x). - news filters. - Holger
