From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 19 19:53:59 2002 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 2EC3537B400 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 19:53:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marbles.lost.net.au (marbles.lost.net.au [203.87.95.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F5B43E77 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 19:53:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@marbles.lost.net.au) Received: (from tim@localhost) by marbles.lost.net.au (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g7K2rof99981; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:23:50 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from tim) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 12:23:50 +0930 From: Tim Peters To: Dan Langille Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What mail client for a computer newbie? Message-ID: <20020820025350.GA99917@lost.net.au> References: <3D617400.1294.5D259729@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D617400.1294.5D259729@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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