[Novalug] Searching for a new email client
greg pryzby
greg@pryzby.org
Sat Feb 23 09:37:07 EST 2008
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I went through this recently and decided and Thunderbird.
maxpublic08@maxwellspangler.com wrote:
>
> I want to ditch pine as my email client.
>
> I've been using it for, probably 15 years. It has not changed much and
> I want to take the plunge to something a bit more contemporary.
>
> What should I use, and why?
>
> I like pine because it:
>
> 1) Is very keyboard friendly and that makes sense since writing text for
> emails requires the keyboard not the mouse.
>
> 2) Is very configurable. I use it with fetchmail to acquire mail and
> procmail to make carbon copies/automatic saves/duplicates and of course
> drop mail into specific folders. I'd love to ditch procmail and use a
> GUI to setup rules for the same.
>
> Why I don't like pine
>
> 1) Can't display html easily and that's gone from being a good thing to
> a severe limitation in a modern web enabled world.
>
> 2) doesn't seem to have contemporary features like indexed email that
> can be searched. Gmail has this and I figure a local mail client should
> as well, right?
>
> 3) is boring boring boring. Flip side; is very trusty and reliable.
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
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