Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 20:32:55 -0800 From: Michael Perry <mperry@tsoft.com> Message-ID: <20001125203255.A6947@tsoft.com> Subject: Re: [SLE] Balsa, mahogany, kmail...Summing up Quoting Timothy R. Butler on Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 10:11:45PM -0600:
Right now, I'm using KMail belonging to the KDE2 package despite running KDE1. It works fine, almost as good as Netscape Messenger in Windoze. I miss the possibility of sending BCC's. Kmail might be THE project you are asking for. For those who are OE fans, of course, it might be a good idea to establish a project of making an LX-OE.
In general many refrain from turning to Linux, because Linux doesn't have IE and OE. IMHO, the browser issue is bundled with the mail client issue. Netscape seems to be incapacitated regarding producing obedient code. The browser works fine until Messenger is set up. After that it's useless on a machine with a dial up connection charged per minute.
I agree that Kmail might be THE project. Kmail for KDE 2.0 seems to have much - although not quite all of - the polish in Outlook. When bundled with the rest of the KDE suite, it's quite nice. If they were to add a Outlook Today like screen that took data from both Kmail and KOrganizer, it would be nearly perfect. It might not be quite there yet - but it certainly does seem to be the e-mail client that would most likely be equal to a Windows/Mac client.
-Tim
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After using kmail with kde2, it is pretty slick. I don't see it competing with the likes of an evolution though. Evolution will come out of the box with all the components like mail, scheduling, contacts. In fact, it already does. I think evolution is "the project" to watch. Kmail would need to have integration done with a PIM/contact manager. Evolution already is doing that. It does html email or graphics embedding already. Does multiple mail accounts (I think), does contact management and time management already. I have heard that folks are already considering doing evolution servers to manage a group's time. KDE is gonna have to go a distance to come up with what the Helixcode team will release in evolution. Combine that with Nautilus and its a complete story. -- Michael Perry mperry@tsoft.com ------------------