From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 28 1: 3:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.plug.cx (kypo.alfred.cx [150.101.93.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D07C537B408 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:03:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.plug.cx (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 839812B8BF; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:44:15 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:44:15 +0930 From: Andrew Reid To: Zach Hartley Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feature-rich GUI mail client Message-ID: <20010928174415.B50772@plug.cx> References: <20010928000346.A13056@linus.highpoint.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010928000346.A13056@linus.highpoint.edu>; from zhartley@linus.highpoint.edu on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:03:46AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:03:46AM -0400, Zach Hartley wrote: > > I haven't used X-windows much at all, so am fairly unfamiliar with the > > software available. Are there any such programs that have Outlook-like > > features such as e-mail address auto-complete? Kmail doesn't cut it, and > > being non computer techie people, they aren't interested in using any > > console programs at all. > > Kmail doesn't cut it? I'm honestly interested in what it doesn't have, > other than auto-complete. In all my gui mail client wranglings, kmail seems > to be the best you'll ever do, though some people talk about evolution > being good, I myself could never get it to compile correctly. Good luck. I use Evolution (except at the moment, where I'm using Mutt as my laptop is in pieces :-) and it handles my 700-odd messages a day quite nicely. evolution-0.13 (/usr/ports/mail/evolution) compiled in a few hours (once the GNOME dependencies were dealt with) on a Duron 850. It works quite nicely, with the exception of a funny oafd problem. If you want to use Evolution, you may be better off considering running it on a Ximian-supported OS. It does make it easier to live with. At least it's not Windows. - andrew -- void signature () { cout << "Andrew Reid -- andrew.reid@plug.cx" << endl; cout << "Cell: +61 401 946 813" << endl; cout << "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur" << endl; } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message