On Thursday 05 April 2007 07:01, Matthew Stringer wrote: > Hi, > /snip/ > > I've decided to bin this and try something else, possibly Evolution, is it > possible to import my mail from Thunderbird into this? > > What mail clients do the folks on here recommend for Linux? > > Regards > > Matthew Another email (from Carlos E.R. reports how to copy Thunderbird mail into KMail, so you can avoid Gnome if you wish.
I like Eudora on the Win platform, and with a little futzing, you can get KMail to look very much like Eudora. I'm talking about the Eudora native version, not the one that looks like Outlook. For all I know you can make KMail look like Outlook also, but why? KMail also does a few tricks that Eudora 4.0 doesn't know about, like refusing to accept .html screens until you permit it. (It prints the .html script, but does not translate it until you say OK.) In 10.0, KMail would sometimes deliver perfectly legitimate email in some kind of Asian characters that looked like Chinese, and I could not find any way to salvage it, so I went back to 9.3. And now I'm paying for that, since 9.3 forgot how to print to the printer, but that's another story. I would ask around if anyone's had the Chinese character problem with KMail in the version of SuSE you're using. Otherwise, I mostly like it. In 9.3 the problem did not arise. The only other problem I've had with KMail, set up as a Eudora wannabe, is that the incoming mail subjects always appear in very small typeface, and all the helpful people on this list could not fix that. Everything else, including this outgoing mail, comes up nice and readable. The small typeface may not bother anyone with a big screen and good vision, but I've had some serious vision problems in the recent past, and it is a bit of a trial, but with my 20" LCD, I can live with it. I know that there are a whole batch of email progs on Linux, and some of the old Unix hands will try to guide you to old Unix progs, but I'm not an old Unix hand--I'm an old Windows 3.1 user, and DOS before, so this is my take on the thing. (Old Windows had NO mail, AFAIK.) --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
