Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:23:50 +0930 From: Tim Peters <tim@lost.net.au> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What mail client for a computer newbie? Message-ID: <20020820025350.GA99917@lost.net.au> In-Reply-To: <3D617400.1294.5D259729@localhost> References: <3D617400.1294.5D259729@localhost>
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:41:04PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > What mail client would you recommend for my mother? > > To be fair, she's been using pine under FreeBSD for about a year now. > Now that she's about to get a new computer, it's time to upgrade to a > GUI (we're going with KDE). > > She has the concepts of email now. But I want a simple interface. > Try to think of this from a computer newbie point of view, not an X > or FreeBSD point of view. Kmail is a very good choice, if she'll be learning the KDE style interface anyway. Or, to avoid having to learn anything new, "xterm -e pine" :-) -- tim@lost.net.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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