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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