From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 16 08:44:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5390D16A4CF for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:44:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tisys.org (roesisworld.de [69.28.244.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F5B643D48 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:44:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: from rosi.tisys.org (dialin-pool2-180.wobline.de [62.176.227.180]) by tisys.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i3GFhxT08176; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:43:59 -0700 From: Nils Holland Organization: Ti Systems To: "Jeremy C. Reed" Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:43:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404161743.30418.nils@tisys.org> cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pick a mail client for my wife X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:44:10 -0000 On Friday 16 April 2004 16:37, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > What should she try? Well, just for the fun of it, let me give my opinion on the mail clients already mentioned by you: > Evolution? I tried this a while ago, and I didn't really like it. That might actually have been due to the fact that I wanted a mail client and *only* a mail client. If you want something that goes beyond that and kind of offers the functionality MS Outlook does, this might indeed be a good choice. > Thunderbird? Never tried this under BSD, but I saw this running on a friend's machine under Windows. Of course, it's basically the Mozilla mail client without Mozilla, but I kind of liked it. This "intelligent" spam detection thing built into it looks really good, though I had no chance to play around with my friend's machine long enough to find out everything there is about it, and I guess I would filter SPAM on the mailserver whenever possible. ;-) > Kmail? (Maybe not enough features?) Actually, that's what I use. Of course, it would depend on quite some things - you don't need the whole KDE to run it, but QT and kdelibs are the least you'll have to install before you can install KMail from kdenetwork. Feature-wise, I guess I'm really happy with it! At least it does what I want it to and I've not yet found anything I miss. If you want to go with something more like Outlook or Evolution, I guess KDE's "Kontact" would be something for you. I only had a short look at it, but I guess a suitable simplified description would be that it "bundles" KMail and KOrganizer into something Outlook-like. ;-) > Balsa/Balsa2? Hmm, I was using Balsa some three years ago or so. I guess a lot has changed since than, and I must admit that I don't really remember if I was happy with it or not. So yeah, I think I won't be able to give my comment on this one. *g* Hope that helps ... if not, I hope it was at least entertaining or something. ;-) Greetings, Nils