Best E-Mail Client
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Sun Aug 17 15:03:28 UTC 2008
John K Masters 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.
>
LOL. But not really true. Outlook is horrible, but it doesn't open viruses
on my machines (in fact, it's far more likely to bar access to important
files), and there's a huge capacity for user configuration - though it's
extremely obscure.
--
derek
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