-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Robin,
I'm back to Windows for the moment... On Sunday, November 23, 2003, at 3:19:09 PM PST, you wrote: > Try wine by all means, but you might first consider looking at the > multitude of mail programs for Linux. Whatever features make you > like the Bat, you'll probably find somewhere. I've looked at several Linux email clients, and I've yet to find anything that even comes close to The Bat in terms of overall mail management/interface, filter and template power, or composition (TB! has many useful plain text editing options that I haven't seen in any of the Linux clients I've looked at or tried so far). I've also asked around on some Bat user's mail lists, and *all* of the Linux users say that they've never seen any Linux email client that comes close in these areas that are important to me (and to them). For those with high expectations with regards to email clients, while they might use Linux for many things, they still keep Windows around so they can use TB for their email. Others have said that the *only* reason they're reluctant to make a complete switch to Linux from Windows is not being able to run TB natively on Linux. What I really wish for is to have The Bat ported to Linux, so that all of us can benefit from this amazing email client! :-) I've been told that since The Bat is written in "Delphi", it shouldn't be too difficult to port it to Linux (and yes...I've written to the TB developers asking them to do this). I just hope it can happen soon. I'm pretty happy with Knode as a news reader (haven't yet tried slrn or others), but I'm having a real hard time getting used to what I feel are pretty major "downgrade" issues moving from The Bat to any of the Linux clients I've seen so far. I'll keep looking and trying, but so far, the search has been disappointing. - -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]&Body=Please%20send%20keys -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE/wUqljVbXUvsE8ukRAl6WAKCmdm8fdHO3D9B4cPvnXWkrIAcVIwCgwVBn xP/q2A/0VcW0LXZnHNYqjVY= =3qUW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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