| E. M. Recio on 15 Jan 2010 06:01:15 -0800 |
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On Sunday 10 January 2010 16:43:18 JP Vossen wrote: > Anyone using Thunderbird 3? I tried it on my Windows XP work machine > and am mostly hating it. I agree with you completely with TB3 (am using Fedora 12). After a long time TB user, I switched when my emails after a certain date just disappeared (from my IMAP server). I had to restore it all from backup. Then it happened again... so I figured out it was (based on the incrementals date) when I installed TB3. Some default option cleared out ALL mail from ALL folders after a certain date 90 days. I have email on my server since 2002! There were other quirks with the TB3 UI and functionality which irked me, this was the final straw... don't mess with my email! So... I tried evolution. Evolution is very powerful and feature packed... but as far as doing very simple things (having a trash folder, changing so <CTRL><ENTER> asks for confirmation before sending, etc.) it does HORRIBLY. Further, the developers have no intention of providing options from within preferences to change these features. (Check the gnome bugzilla for Evolution.) After a month of using Evolution i have finally given up on all its quirks which are NOT changeable. GnuPG is supported under Evolution. Let me make it clear: if you can deal with simple things that you cannot change, then that might be overwhelmed by its rich feature-set, and powerful behind- the-scenes features... just open up preferences and you'll see what I mean... Currently, I am using KMail, and like much of the OLDER KDE (Pre-3.5, I used to use KDE since 1998 until they went to KDE4 ... KDE4 jumped the shark in my book) many features are configurable and it *does* support GnuPG out the box. Kmail works great even though I am using Gnome, and so far so good. If this email sounds bitter, sorry, it's probably because it is... i just want to read email. Speaking of which does anyone have a text based email reader (NOT mutt, or mail/x)? I was very familiar with Pine and liked it a lot, I tried a muttrc which emulated pine, but couldn't deal with mutt always having to have to invoke external applications to read (for example) html emails, or emails in other character sets which showed up as attachments, just strip it and show me the text! -e Attachment:
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