On Sunday, September 22, 2013 10:16:22 PM Doug wrote:
On 09/22/2013 09:59 PM, Richard wrote:
At the risk of startng an email war: what suggestions might there be for an email program?
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Richard
A lot of people use and sort of like Thunderbird. I use it. But each time they upgrade it--and it's on a six-week upgrade sched--they louse up something. It has the advantage of being easily configurable by someone who knows nothing about ports, or tcpicp, or anything else adminish. Answer a few very simple questions and it's configured and working. Nothing else I have looked at over the years is that simple. It does have filters, but they have sort of loused that up--the latest version only gives you the option of _deleting_ whatever you filter. The problem with this is, sometimes you make a filter that has unexpected consequences, and it filters something you'd like to read. Well, if the only option is delete, then you can't read _anything_ you filtered. It has had, sporadically, an aversion to sending http and https to Firefox. There is a patch that you can run for that, but, of course, you shouldn't have to. The latest version seems to have made it impossible to read pdfs in Adobe Reader, and its own pdf reader really _sucks!_ You can always download the file and then open it in Adobe, but that's a pita. Latest release is 24.0. I think that somewhere there is a hoard of earlier T-Bird and Firefox software, and it might make sense to find it and install an earlier version. YMMV.
--doug
Thanks Doug, and John for the additional vote of support. Have seen many references to happy use of T-bird on this list, just never gave it a shot. Perhaps the time is now. Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org