Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:43:30 +0200 From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pick a mail client for my wife Message-ID: <200404161743.30418.nils@tisys.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0404160731570.6619-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0404160731570.6619-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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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
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