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Re: [opensuse] Migrating from Thunderbird
- From: Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:51:41 -0400
- Message-id: <200704051851.41752.dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Thursday 05 April 2007 07:01, Matthew Stringer wrote:
> Hi,
>
/snip/
>
> I've decided to bin this and try something else, possibly Evolution, is it
> possible to import my mail from Thunderbird into this?
>
> What mail clients do the folks on here recommend for Linux?
>
> Regards
>
> Matthew
Another email (from Carlos E.R. reports how to copy Thunderbird mail into
KMail, so you can avoid Gnome if you wish.
I like Eudora on the Win platform, and with a little futzing, you can get
KMail to look very much like Eudora. I'm talking about the Eudora native
version, not the one that looks like Outlook. For all I know you can make
KMail look like Outlook also, but why? KMail also does a few tricks that
Eudora 4.0 doesn't know about, like refusing to accept .html screens until you
permit it. (It prints the .html script, but does not translate it until you
say OK.)
In 10.0, KMail would sometimes deliver perfectly legitimate email in some
kind of Asian characters that looked like Chinese, and I could not find any
way to salvage it, so I went back to 9.3. And now I'm paying for that, since
9.3 forgot how to print to the printer, but that's another story. I would
ask around if anyone's had the Chinese character problem with KMail in the
version of SuSE you're using. Otherwise, I mostly like it. In 9.3 the
problem did not arise. The only other problem I've had with KMail, set
up as a Eudora wannabe, is that the incoming mail subjects always appear in
very small typeface, and all the helpful people on this list could not fix
that. Everything else, including this outgoing mail, comes up nice and
readable. The small typeface may not bother anyone with a big screen and
good vision, but I've had some serious vision problems in the recent past,
and it is a bit of a trial, but with my 20" LCD, I can live with it.
I know that there are a whole batch of email progs on Linux, and some
of the old Unix hands will try to guide you to old Unix progs, but I'm not
an old Unix hand--I'm an old Windows 3.1 user, and DOS before, so this is
my take on the thing. (Old Windows had NO mail, AFAIK.)
--doug
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> Hi,
>
/snip/
>
> I've decided to bin this and try something else, possibly Evolution, is it
> possible to import my mail from Thunderbird into this?
>
> What mail clients do the folks on here recommend for Linux?
>
> Regards
>
> Matthew
Another email (from Carlos E.R. reports how to copy Thunderbird mail into
KMail, so you can avoid Gnome if you wish.
I like Eudora on the Win platform, and with a little futzing, you can get
KMail to look very much like Eudora. I'm talking about the Eudora native
version, not the one that looks like Outlook. For all I know you can make
KMail look like Outlook also, but why? KMail also does a few tricks that
Eudora 4.0 doesn't know about, like refusing to accept .html screens until you
permit it. (It prints the .html script, but does not translate it until you
say OK.)
In 10.0, KMail would sometimes deliver perfectly legitimate email in some
kind of Asian characters that looked like Chinese, and I could not find any
way to salvage it, so I went back to 9.3. And now I'm paying for that, since
9.3 forgot how to print to the printer, but that's another story. I would
ask around if anyone's had the Chinese character problem with KMail in the
version of SuSE you're using. Otherwise, I mostly like it. In 9.3 the
problem did not arise. The only other problem I've had with KMail, set
up as a Eudora wannabe, is that the incoming mail subjects always appear in
very small typeface, and all the helpful people on this list could not fix
that. Everything else, including this outgoing mail, comes up nice and
readable. The small typeface may not bother anyone with a big screen and
good vision, but I've had some serious vision problems in the recent past,
and it is a bit of a trial, but with my 20" LCD, I can live with it.
I know that there are a whole batch of email progs on Linux, and some
of the old Unix hands will try to guide you to old Unix progs, but I'm not
an old Unix hand--I'm an old Windows 3.1 user, and DOS before, so this is
my take on the thing. (Old Windows had NO mail, AFAIK.)
--doug
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