From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 20 8:12:53 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 D696B37B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:12:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horkos.telenet-ops.be (horkos.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BCC643E6A for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:12:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@paeps.cx) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by horkos.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id B299E84020; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:12:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fortuna.home.paeps.cx (D5768732.kabel.telenet.be [213.118.135.50]) by horkos.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 352068406D; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:12:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from juno.home.paeps.cx (juno [10.0.0.2]) by fortuna.home.paeps.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDF5E771; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:12:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: by juno.home.paeps.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9A783875; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:12:47 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 17:12:47 +0200 From: Philip Paeps To: Dan Langille Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What mail client for a computer newbie? Message-ID: <20020820151247.GP22500@juno.paeps.cx> Mail-Followup-To: Dan Langille , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <3D617400.1294.5D259729@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D617400.1294.5D259729@localhost> X-Message-Flag: Get yourself a real mail client. Try Mutt: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 2002-08-20 04:42:43, Dan Langille wrote: > What mail client would you recommend for my mother? My mother's been using Evolution for a while, and I haven't heard any complaints, and she appears to be communicating happily with the rest of the world. > 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). Well, if she's used to Pine, why not let her stick to Pine? Maybe install a 'light' GUI (WindowMaker's good) and run Pine in a terminal (like Eterm, Aterm, Xterm, whateverterm). > 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. I fear that KDE might be a bit too complex. All these funny bells and whistles all over the shop. Might it not be better to install a 'light' window manager instead? I doubt she'll be needing all the 'advanced' features of KDE. Just a way to start the mailclient, the wordprocessor, the spreadsheet, etc. - Philip -- Philip Paeps philip@paeps.cx http://www.paeps.cx/ +32 486 114 720 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message