Oooh, time for a Holy War.

[venta]

Well, 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 :)

Comments

[wimble.livejournal.com]

I have my "mark as read after" set to the lowest time that it'll let me.
But doesn't that mean that you've got problems using the keyboard to navigate? Looking at message 1, fine. Press down twice (to skip message 2, and examine message 3). Oh look, it decides to stop and think somewhere in the process. Message 2 is now marked as read. This might actually be more of a problem with the news reader than the mailer, as the news reader does tend to stop at inopportune moments, while it downloads some more messages.

I gave you a spec.
And you also said you might be willing to learn procmail, thus causing confusion. Ok, I'll rephrase my comment: Mutt's philosophy (being a unix program) is that a filter program should do the filtering.

The only awful part of lathany's description (to my mind) is The help doesn't. Depends on how much you need the help ;-)

[venta.livejournal.com]

The only awful part of lathany's description (to my mind) is The help doesn't. Depends on how much you need the help ;-)

I hate things not handling line-wrapping properly.

And I regard "can't convert html email to text email" as pretty much non-negotiably unacceptable.

I automatically assume that help functions won't, and more or less never use them :)