While still not perfect, I found thunderbird 3.0 (now at rc1) a huge improvement over the previous version.
Might be worth your time to try it... Cheers, -Amos On 11/29/09, jam <[email protected]> wrote: > She-who-must-be-obeyed has just become the club secretary and sends mail to > the committee most of whom are winders users and here starts the saga: > > kmail which she used (and is arguably the nicest GUI mailer) can't be > configured to not send plain AND html mail. It then wraps every quoted line > in > <p> </p> tags which the winders mailers render as 2 lines [bug reports > confirm > this] > As a result after a few back-n-forth the mail consists of islands of text in > a > sea of blank lines > > evolution wont display pictures inline automatically. Easy to click <display > inline> for one but get a blast with 20 small pictures and it is really > irritating. [kmail:display inline [] click] > using bogofilter is mindlessly complex. After 1/2 day googling I'm no nearer > a > working solution [kmail: use bogofilter [] click] > evolution seems anally-fixated on the keyring. There is only me and her. I > dont want and dont need any passwords. [kmail: use wallet? No! Are you sure > that you want to be so stupid? Yes! Done!] > > thunderbird: respond to slug digest selecting 2nd last posting. > First n hundred lines are included, sorry not the article you selected. Much > cut and paste if you want to be relevant. > I did not find out how to display inline but I read it can be done. > > Any suggestions or do I just bite the bullet with kmail and tough to the > committee? > > James > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
