On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:16:57 -0800, Micah J. Cowan wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 03:32:47PM -0600, Jay Strauss wrote: > >> You should try Thunderbird. It kinda sucks too :) >> > It's what I've switched back to. It has its problems, but it's my > favorite thus far. >
I looked over a bunch of email programs in FreeBSD ports. The only three that seemed to have one of my main requirements -- threading -- were Thunderbird, GnuMail, and Sylpheed-Claws, and I couldn't get GnuMail to work at all. So I compared the other two and showed my wife what I'd found. The biggest gripe we both had about Thunderbird was the fact that we couldn't do a mark/reply; reply would always include the entire message. Sylpheed-Claws will quote only the marked text. I also couldn't get Thunderbird to toss email for specific accounts into specific default folders (I had to create a filter for each one). It's possible that I just didn't understand how to do it, but it should have been obvious. Sylpheed did that nicely and easily. My two biggest gripes about Sypheed were: 1) I had to set up a separate smtp server for each account; Thunderbird lets you set up a default server, and override it on a per-account basis. That's particularly nice if you're, say, on a laptop that you may use at hotspots where you need to easily change the server you're using. My ISP blocks port 25, so I have to use their server when I'm home, but if I'm at the local hangout I have to use my hosted domain server. 2) When I went to do a reply of a message that came in on an account that's not my primary, Sylpheed-Claws replied using my primary account by default. Thunderbird (and PocoMail and Eudora) will reply using the account it came in on. However that is much mitigated because I can override the primary account on a per-mailbox basis (and there's an option to include sub-mailboxes). Since I'm tossing those accounts to different places anyway, it's not a show-stopper. Sylpheed-Claws also has a "reply to sender" button that's great for private replies to people on mailing lists. Blanche and I both decided that the inability to mark/quote was a show-stopper. She is now happily using Sylpheed-Claws on her Linux machine. I'm still using Windows on my primary machine, I'm still not ready to migrate this system to FreeBSD. To complicate matters, I may be getting a PowerBook in the next couple days, at which point I'll be examining OS X offerings, as I expect I'll keep my email there. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
