At 10:03 27/06/01 -0400, Diane wrote:
I am sure most of this is a matter of personal preference, I also think outlook would be much better as a linux program. I always thought eudora was the one that was a hassle.
As a long time Eudora user, I can't agree with that. Maybe, you've tried with an older version than the current one. Could you please tell me why you think so? I will put some of the advantages it has over the other ones I've tried at work. * Light in comparison to the other ones. See next point about that too. It is surely much lighter and faster to start/stop then Outlook or Netscape. * Multi user + multi account (personalities). I have one eudora installed on my system. I can run multiple instances of the program (separated windows, mailboxes and options). Those two programs running at the same time on my old machine (K6-233 64MB): one checking three mail accounts for me and the other checking two accounts for my girlfriend. I repeat: at the same time and without any problem. I don't know of any mailer capable of doing that on Windows. Even if Outlook was able to do it, I would be out of memory immediately. And I usually use ICQ, Mozilla on top of those. I am also using the pesonalities feature: different name (you don't think I will prented my name is Patriiiiiiiiiick when I am sending out my resume, do you?) account, signature, reply-to: address and others for each personality. * Filters: even if this part of the interface hasn't changed since I know it, it is the most powerful I've seen until now. It can do so many different things. It is very fast and easy to create a new filter. The same remains true to manage them though I think this could be improved. * Efficient: all the parts of the interface are straightforward: it is easy to learn how to use it and one click or shortcut for one action is usually enough. * But still powerful: the filters remain efficient with high traffic. The mailboxes remain of reasonnable size du to the fact that the mails are decoded when they arrive (spare 30% of the size of the attachements). As an experience, I am keeping many mails in one mailbox to see what the limit is: it now has about 27 000 messages in it and its size is 90 MB. All that with no big speed hit. Also, once, I had an account with 5000+ mails on it. Rather than spending the time to download them all, I just dowloaded the headers of the mails, remotely deleted the ones I didn't want to read and took the rest. All that with POP3 even if it supports IMAP4. * It is a non M$ product. No explantion needed here. ;-) There surely other things but I can't think of them right now. Polite regards, ( ;-p ) Patrick