On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 00:01, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:

> Heh, you could've started a nice rumble again on the html versus plain text 
> mails=;o)
> 

Well, we have to face the fact that sometimes we're going to get mail
from MS Outlook mongoloids, so with the ability to either
send/view/reply to HTML formatted email easily and quickly, we're
playing nicely with the primitives. Besides, sometimes it's not a bad
thing to send an HTML formatted email - for me, price lists,
informational epiphanies, letters to mom...

> Personally evo's gui gives me a sort of 'cooped up' feeling like netscape 
> always did as a browser.

The GUI can be changed quite easily and quickly...you DON'T have to have
it show the "Shortcut Bar" - which saves some speed as well...but hey,
to each their own! I put chili sauce on my eggs, you might not! (g)

> I like the crisp and open feel of kmail and last but certainly not least: 
> Sylpheed is wonderful on lower spec laptops because it fires up so quickly 
> when using other desktops like xfce or icewm.
> It just takes a few secs to have it up and running contary to almost half a 
> minute for evo, kmail and mozilla.
> 

KMail's interface is nice, true enough - it shares the "continuity of
feel" that all KDE applications have - and that's cool. But if Evolution
is taking you more than 10 seconds or so to start up, then either it's
not configured properly, your drives aren't optimised, you lib paths
aren't optimised, or the computer is a tad on the slow side...

> Very nice if you've just connected with a very expensive foreign 
> gsm-connection and discover you forgot to start the mailclient before 
> connecting. A definite $-saver for me=:o)
> 

Maybe even PINE or MUTT would be faster? (g)

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