From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 20 6:12: 1 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 C763E37B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 06:11:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB1C543E72 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 06:11:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7KDBuY27546; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:11:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g7KDBuR04090; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:11:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7KDBro04083; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:11:53 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3D624019.819F87A@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:11:53 -0500 From: Eric Anderson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Langille Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What mail client for a computer newbie? References: <3D617400.1294.5D259729@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 I have my wife using Netscape Mail. It isn't the best, but it's fairly user friendly, simple to set up, and is the same across platforms. Netscape 4.x isn't as pretty as Mozilla 1.x or Netscape 6.x (or 7), but all do the trick. Looks alright under any window manager (heck, she's using fluxbox), and does IMAP/POP. Eric 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. > > cheers. > -- > Dan Langille > I'm looking for a computer job: > http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology The moon may be smaller than Earth, but it's further away. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message