>Personally I can't get to grips with Thunderpants. It seems to be very >unfriendly and drab to look at and the interface certainly needs an update - >apart from the fact that the scheduling add-on is really naff.
I don't like Thunderbird because it's too much like OE. I don't like the preview pane or the MDI thing. I also really don't like the notion of keeping attachments encoded with the messages. Since encoding increases message size by 50%, this leads to hugely bloated mailboxes--and if the mailbox gets corrupted, you've lost both messages and attachments. I like good old Eudora--where you can turn off the preview and auto-opening of messages, and where attachments are automatically decoded and stored as real documents, which you can then keep or discard separately from the message bodies. But the new open-source version of Eudora is just Thunderbird with some Eudora-like graphics. (There's a configuration setting that turns off the preview pane--it works great if you don't mind also not being able to read your message text at all, even in a new window. There isn't any way at all to force automatic decoding and separation of attachments from messages.) I do like the junk/spam detection though. I understand how to train it. Sadly, most of the users I support don't--just one more computer-interface feature that somebody thought would be "intuitive" and easy to use--but isn't. I don't use calendar/contact features and don't miss them. And I like POP email; I have no use for a centralized intermediate holding basket for my email--just another moving part that can break. It's just as easy to tell all but one of my email clients on various machines to not delete messages from the server. So all-in-all, Eudora 5.x is still a better email client than anything I've seen come down the pike since. Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
