Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1683 mails)

[cliff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Cliff Sarginson)]

Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 07:07:11 +0100
From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <20001126070711.A2395@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SLE] Balsa, mahogany, kmail...Summing up



On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 04:17:11PM -0500, Corvin Russell wrote:
> So, summing up:
> 
> There seems to be a consensus that despite the proliferation of
> clients, there is no robust GUI MUA that can compete with Outlook,
> Outlook Express, or Eudora.  Users who like the functionality of those
> programs are not going to be impressed by the options on offer for
> Linux. 
> 
<snip>

I agree with everything in this post.
I use mutt and kmail in combination.
Mutt to quickly scan mail, delete uninteresting things
and write quick replies. I use kmail if I want to
consider things at more leisure.
However I would not expect people to follow my working practises.
Mutt is very good, but it will not win the hearts of Outlook
users. Kmail is still not quite right, many aspects of it's interface
are counter intuitive imho. However kmail2 is the best I have tried
so far.
Since Email is probably the single most important web application
for most people it really needs a red-hot mail program.
Outlook is without a doubt one of Microsoft's better products.
A look-alike of it would be very impressive !

Word processing is another application that needs looking at.. but that
is off-topic here I guess :)

Keep on rocking, this is an important thread, so I hope it is being
heard :)

Cliff