Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 09:48:00 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GUI mail client recommendations ... Message-ID: <20060507094529.23BD.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <200605071522.33643.danny@ricin.com> References: <20060506222821.R36981@ganymede.hub.org> <200605071522.33643.danny@ricin.com>
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Danny Pansters wrote: > On Sunday 07 May 2006 03:29, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > On Sun, 7 May 2006, Ian Moore wrote: > > > On Sunday 07 May 2006 09:10, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > >> I've been using pine *forever* now and am finding it really hard to find > > >> a good GUI to replace it :( Tried kmail, didn't like it ... > > >> > > >> Off the top of my head, the only thing(s) it needs to do is: > > >> > > >> multiple identities > > >> IMAP > > >> PGP > > >> > > >> As much as I hate admitting doing things under Windows, I have used > > >> Eudora in the past and like its interface, but, alas, there is no Eudora > > >> for Unix > > > > > > I use kmail (part of kde) which is also very nice and will do all the > > > above. > > > > I tried it, and was turned off very question ... my first beef ... I > > couldn't seem to select multiple messags in the thread window to do a mass > > operation on it ... for instance, in eudora, I could do 'shift-<up/dn>' to > > highlight several articles ... under kmail, the up/dn arrow scrolls the > > bottom message window ;( > > As you've noticed the up and down keys are already used for scrolling in the > content widget. Instead use shift or ctrl and the left mouse button instead > or the + and - keys (go to latter/next unread message) or the arrow-left and > arrow-right keys (go to latter/next message). See "Keyboard Shortcuts" in the > KMail handbook which is the obvious place to look ;-) > > Finally, most core KDE apps have a settings -> shortcuts menu entry so you can > even change the defaults. Some people call this bloat. > > Dan If you need help with KMail and how to properly use and configure it, might I suggest the following list: KDE PIM users mailing list kdepim-users@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net
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