[NTLUG:Discuss] Mail Clent Recommendations

[Juliet Blosser]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 08:01:16AM -0600, MadHat wrote:
> al_h at technologist.com wrote:
> > 
> > I currently use NS Messenger for 99.999% of my email, I have played with
> > Kmail, which doesnt offer any advantages over NS Msgr.
> > Does anyone have a mail client that they feel improves upon my current
> > choice? I am interested in end user experiences, please tell me about
> > what you - - use.
> > 
> > Why?
> > 
> > What will I gain/loose from NS Messenger?
> 
> The problem I find is that most people want a GUI that does everything
> Netscape does, but don't want to use Netscape.  I like mutt (and is what
> I use for my business mail), but if you are using POP mail, it doesn't
> allow for filtering directly, you have to use fetchmail and procmail to
> do filtering, AFAIK.  I might be wrong.
> 
> I want to see Eudora for Linux.
> 
> I still use Netscape for my personal mail because I haven't found
> anything "clean" (or finished/polished) enough to do everything I want
> (filtering, threading, decent spell checking, easy to set up and change,
> good address book, mailbox compression, etc...).  I still don't know of
> a good client that has the ability to check multiple POP accounts anlong
> with all the above.
> 
> kMail is supposed to be working on all these features, but...

Well, this client isn't finished, but my company is working 
on a product called TradeMail, which you can download from 
http://cobra.bynari.net/.  Just so no one gets confused if 
they go to download this, the goal of the project is to have 
two separate clients--Trademail LE, which will be an LGPL POP 
client, and the full version, which will interface with MS 
Exchange through the use of a server-side application and 
some other technicalities I haven't entirely followed.  
Anyway, we're striving to make an excellent GUI POP client 
out of Trademail LE, which is what you can download right 
now, try out, and find bugs and suggest features.