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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Re: Pegasus
Date: 2003-04-23 03:26 am (UTC)* Awful support for HTML mail.
Surely any support for HTML mail is awful support for HTML mail? ;-)
Very poor support for auto-wrapping of long lines in received mail (varies with who sent it
I think the most likely reason for this is that it doesn't wrap lines in quoted-printable messages. Could that be it?
Re: Pegasus
Well yes, fair point. But then, the feature
Could that be it?
Could be. Certainly I don't know many people who use it. I'll have to get Bill to send me a long email so that I can test your theory.