Best E-Mail Client

Chris G cl at isbd.net
Sun Aug 17 08:52:47 UTC 2008


On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 09:10:05AM +0200, Knapp wrote:
>    On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:28 PM, John K Masters <[1]johnmasters at me.com>
>    wrote:
> 
>      On 16:12 Sat 16 Aug     , Derek Broughton wrote:
>      > Hal Burgiss wrote:
>      >
>      > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 08:21:27PM -0400, David McNally wrote:
>      > >>
>      > >> I'm looking for an email client that does everything that Microsoft
>      > >> Outlook does, and just as well (or better)
>      > >
>      > > Best email client? That might be a job for mutt, which, as they say,
>      > > sucks, but sucks less.
>      >
>      > LOL.  But I think it fails on the primary requirement - doing
>      everything MS
>      > Outlook does.
> 
>      Not true. It should be possible to write a macro for mutt that saves all
>      messages to a single file in a format totally unreadable by any other
>      mail app. Combine that with a carte blanche invitation to open any virus
>      contaminated mail and disallow any user configuration beyond the basics
>      and you have 99% of Outlook functionality.
>      --
>      John, on Mutt via my Mac
> 
>    Ya, but what about the TV ads and cool art and everyone else uses it
>    factors?
> 
Everyone who *is* anyone uses mutt don't they?  :-)

-- 
Chris Green




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