Hi Rachel.
I certainly do understand you. I'm quite a newcomer in Linux world after many
years spent under Windows (from 3.1 to 95, NT, 2000 beta2).
Yes, I disliked the graphical gadgets, but I got found of the comfort a GUI
provides. And, besides, no matter how VERY tempting a soft like mutt I believe
(which uses the file system to deposit the mails) it is, I REALLY want to be
able to receive and send HTML formatted mails.
I haven't had any problems yet with Netscape under Linux (but thousands under
Windows), but I hate it because the fonts are horrible.
I like KMail, like all KDE applications (KDE being the first graphical
interface I love more than Windows's), but I agree it lacks fundamental
features:
- HTML support (not damn attachments which, when you open them you see them as
plain text too)
- a basic UNDO feature when editing (I've ruined a lot of messages)
- a spelling checker (not being a native english speaker, it is vital almost
for me)
- stability problems corrections (the application suddenly exits, then the
address book which removes some of the entries...)
But let's give a chance to the guys from KDE (after all it won the CeBIT prize
for best software innovation of 98/99 I believe) - I think it's really a
Windows killer...
Since I haven't had problems with Netscape (using SuSE 6.0 and the Netscape
included in the CD's, why don't you try to reinstall it?) - just a thought,
probably a reminiscence from my previous Windows experience, when the first
thing to be done was to reinstall everything :)
Let's have patience since there are strong signs that Linux is to become much
more comfortable to use than it is in the present days.
Wish you luck,
Dan
On Sun, 04 Apr 1999, Rachel Greenham wrote:
>It's just crashed on me once too often while I was writing an email. This is
>4.5 as comes with SuSE 6 by the way and is probably the least reliable piece
>of "production" software I have ever used. I'm almost tempted to use Outlook
>out of spite, but it really would be spite as I have a perfectly good email
>client here on my Acorn and I don't know why I ever stopped using it.
>
>The only good thing I can say is that, being that it's running on Linux,
>Netscape can't do any more harm than crash itself.
>HEY! LINUX HAS NO DECENT EMAIL CLIENT! And yes, I've bloody tried them all.
>They have at least one of: An unusable user interface (Pine), lacking in core
>functionality (KMail), Horribly unreliable (Netscape), or can't even get it
>to work at all (Most others).
>
>Yours, in utter fury:
>
>--
>Rachel
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