Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:44:15 +0930 From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx> To: Zach Hartley <zhartley@linus.highpoint.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feature-rich GUI mail client Message-ID: <20010928174415.B50772@plug.cx> In-Reply-To: <20010928000346.A13056@linus.highpoint.edu>; from zhartley@linus.highpoint.edu on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:03:46AM -0400 References: <F86LYbSfI8VsUwCTLVE0000992d@hotmail.com> <20010928000346.A13056@linus.highpoint.edu>
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On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:03:46AM -0400, Zach Hartley wrote:
> > I haven't used X-windows much at all, so am fairly unfamiliar with the
> > software available. Are there any such programs that have Outlook-like
> > features such as e-mail address auto-complete? Kmail doesn't cut it, and
> > being non computer techie people, they aren't interested in using any
> > console programs at all.
>
> Kmail doesn't cut it? I'm honestly interested in what it doesn't have,
> other than auto-complete. In all my gui mail client wranglings, kmail seems
> to be the best you'll ever do, though some people talk about evolution
> being good, I myself could never get it to compile correctly. Good luck.
I use Evolution (except at the moment, where I'm using Mutt as my laptop
is in pieces :-) and it handles my 700-odd messages a day quite nicely.
evolution-0.13 (/usr/ports/mail/evolution) compiled in a few hours (once
the GNOME dependencies were dealt with) on a Duron 850. It works quite
nicely, with the exception of a funny oafd problem.
If you want to use Evolution, you may be better off considering running
it on a Ximian-supported OS. It does make it easier to live with. At
least it's not Windows.
- andrew
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