Oooh, time for a Holy War.
Apr. 23rd, 2003 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaWell, it looks like the computer glitch I've been complaining about really is caused by running Outlook.
I'd like to find a new mail client. So, I'd require it to do the following:
Allow me to read emails quickly (ie, minimal number of keystrokes/mouseclics to go from one to the next, delete mails, etc)
Allow easy filtering of messages (I don't speak procmail, though might be prepared to learn)
Handle attachments in a nice way (otherwise I'd just bite the bullet and use pine)
Preferably one which can be easily operated by keyboard alone.
Preferably one which will cope with the 'add comment' emails replying to LJ updates. Eudora doesn't (though that might be because it doesn't talk to IE)
Probably some other things I haven't thought of.
Any advice ?
At home I use the free version of Eudora, but am not entirely happy with it. I love the fact that you can rearrange its components to suit yourself (the list of mail folders belongs on the right hand side of the screen, dammit), and it does have many good things going for it. On the other hand, its error reporting is crap, and the handling of messages if you read them in the preview window is very poor indeed.
(For bonus points: explain why Outlook causes this problem :)
I'd like to find a new mail client. So, I'd require it to do the following:
Allow me to read emails quickly (ie, minimal number of keystrokes/mouseclics to go from one to the next, delete mails, etc)
Allow easy filtering of messages (I don't speak procmail, though might be prepared to learn)
Handle attachments in a nice way (otherwise I'd just bite the bullet and use pine)
Preferably one which can be easily operated by keyboard alone.
Preferably one which will cope with the 'add comment' emails replying to LJ updates. Eudora doesn't (though that might be because it doesn't talk to IE)
Probably some other things I haven't thought of.
Any advice ?
At home I use the free version of Eudora, but am not entirely happy with it. I love the fact that you can rearrange its components to suit yourself (the list of mail folders belongs on the right hand side of the screen, dammit), and it does have many good things going for it. On the other hand, its error reporting is crap, and the handling of messages if you read them in the preview window is very poor indeed.
(For bonus points: explain why Outlook causes this problem :)
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Date: 2003-04-23 02:27 am (UTC)Anyway. I use it because I like the way it handles multiple email accounts. For your purposes, reading/deleting/navigating messages is easy with the keyboard, replying/forwarding/composing all work with control-letterkey and filters are easy. For me, the links in LJ comment emails work fine, but that's cos I use it as my browser too (for two main reasons: tabbed browsing, so I don't have to have a different window for each open page, and the ability to turn off pop-ups, which is the best thing ever*). I don't know how it would work with IE.
* There was a conversation among the web people here a while back about which browsers they like best. I mentioned lack of pop-ups as a reason to use Mozilla, and someone else said 'I like Mozilla too, but I don't know why you have a problem with pop-ups, they work fine for me' ;-)