Best E-Mail Client

[Rudi Ahlers]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
>

Mutt is great, especially for reading / sending emails from remote servers
without X :)

But, a good alternative to MS Outlook could either be Evolution, or
Thunderbird with the calendar plugins.

-- 

Kind Regards
Rudi Ahlers
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