Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 07:07:11 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Message-ID: <20001126070711.A2395@buffy.local> 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