StewartM
October 15th, 2007, 11:59 PM
Greetings,
I'm using (for now) Evolution. It's OK, but it's a bit Outlook-y like for my tastes. I might keep it for the calendar functions. You can get mail to separate accounts into separate folders by filtering, though I think that they should be delivered there by default (i.e., see below).
I've tried Thunderbird on Windows, and wasn't that impressed either. Biggest dislike? Its use of a blue bar to mark quoted text, instead of the old (but good) convention of using '>'s. (Though color-coding the '>'s and the corresponding text with via level to (like XNews does) is a great add-on if available). You can get around this, reportedly, in Thunderbird but it's kind of a hassle.
I prefer '>'s because I feel that marking quoted text with bars or tabs or the like (like Yahoo mail and a lot web mai servicesl do) encourages bad habits in replies, especially top-replying (the mail equivalent of top-posting on Usenet). Such abandonment of what was a previous internet convention reminds me of what Microsoft does with their software all the time. I think it's a much better habit to reply by inserting one's comments interspersed within the original , which is what the '>' convention encouraged.
The best email client I've used I've gotten to run on Ubuntu (though it runs buggy) via Wine: that's Pegasus Mail for Windows 3.12. I like it because it allows you to:
a) paste something as quoted with >s;
b) allow you to control word wrap at whatever character length you prefer;
c) allows for the insertion of custom mail headers;
d) has filtering rules;
e) different email accounts have their own separate Pegasus mail accounts (i.e., at startup you log in as the user for that account). That way you keep the mail separate.
And may other options.
Like I said, it works, but buggily, via WINE.
Is there a GNU/Linux that does something close?
Stewart
I'm using (for now) Evolution. It's OK, but it's a bit Outlook-y like for my tastes. I might keep it for the calendar functions. You can get mail to separate accounts into separate folders by filtering, though I think that they should be delivered there by default (i.e., see below).
I've tried Thunderbird on Windows, and wasn't that impressed either. Biggest dislike? Its use of a blue bar to mark quoted text, instead of the old (but good) convention of using '>'s. (Though color-coding the '>'s and the corresponding text with via level to (like XNews does) is a great add-on if available). You can get around this, reportedly, in Thunderbird but it's kind of a hassle.
I prefer '>'s because I feel that marking quoted text with bars or tabs or the like (like Yahoo mail and a lot web mai servicesl do) encourages bad habits in replies, especially top-replying (the mail equivalent of top-posting on Usenet). Such abandonment of what was a previous internet convention reminds me of what Microsoft does with their software all the time. I think it's a much better habit to reply by inserting one's comments interspersed within the original , which is what the '>' convention encouraged.
The best email client I've used I've gotten to run on Ubuntu (though it runs buggy) via Wine: that's Pegasus Mail for Windows 3.12. I like it because it allows you to:
a) paste something as quoted with >s;
b) allow you to control word wrap at whatever character length you prefer;
c) allows for the insertion of custom mail headers;
d) has filtering rules;
e) different email accounts have their own separate Pegasus mail accounts (i.e., at startup you log in as the user for that account). That way you keep the mail separate.
And may other options.
Like I said, it works, but buggily, via WINE.
Is there a GNU/Linux that does something close?
Stewart