On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 22:47, Melissa Reese wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi The Other, > > On Sunday, December 21, 2003, at 6:25:55 AM PST, you wrote: > > > Has anyone familiar with The Bat! looked into M2 and Opera 7.23? > > I'm in Windows at the moment, but I don't suppose the Opera package > would look and behave much differently under Linux. Next time I'm in > Mandrake, I'll install Opera and have a look anyway. I haven't looked > at Opera since I got my new computer, so after reading your message, I > installed it, set up an account in M2, and had a look around. Frankly, > I'm not impressed...not even a wee bit. :-) > > I've never seen a browser/email/news combination that I felt had a > decent email client (or news reader). For that matter, I've never seen > an email client/news reader combination that I felt did both equally > well (or at least as well as I would like). The closest I've seen to a > half-way decent browser connected email client is Mozilla (and even > there, I would prefer the stand alone Mozilla/Thunderbird email client > with the Enigmail GnuPG integration). Still though, even > Moz/Thunderbird/Enigmail doesn't impress me when I compare it to The > Bat! (no surprise there, as I haven't seen *any* email client that > really impresses me when I compare to TB!). > > Even looking into the additional options in the M2 .ini file, I didn't > see nearly the range of options available in most "real" email clients > (my use of the term "real" is of course subjective, but so be it). > Even having to manually edit the .ini file for some very basic email > options is really clumsy. > > If you don't deal with much email, and all you want is the ability to > send and receive email, and have a very basic address book, I suppose > just about anything that calls itself an "email client" will > do...including M2 (I suppose even AOL can do that much! :-)). If you > want much greater functionality in terms of just about every aspect of > email presentation, management, and composition, I would suggest > looking elsewhere. Again, these are just my subjective opinions, so > take them for what they're worth to you. :-) > > If you're working in Linux, I do feel that the available stand alone > email clients (including Moz/Thunderbird) are all better than Opera's > M2. I haven't had much of a chance to work on my Mandrake installation > these past few days, and probably can't get back to it for another > week or so, but when I do, I'm going to see if I can get The Bat! > working through Wine. > > - -- > Melissa have you tried evolution?? i like evolution but i do want something better... i havent tried the mozilla one yet.. i have seen some emails people send that indent the replies in the same email that came from a diff reply, hope yu can understand what im getting at.. what do u think is the best in the linux world.. i dont like using M$ programs with wine cuz its the reason i dont use M$ programs.. heheh
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