Re: [tlug] EMailClients/BackingUpEMailFiles

[Scott <scottro@example.com>]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 11:46:36AM +0900, Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon wrote:
> 
> Speaking of e-mail clients - I liked Netscape Communicator 4.8 on EE 
> (EvilEmpire) for its extreme ease of backing up things - for example, 
> you can have 10,000 files (literally) in one folder, as I recently did 
> for an OpenOffice newsgroup, and by hitting <Ctrl>+<A>, they are all 
> highlighted, and then <Ctrl>+<S> and the entire batch is saved into one 
> single (rather large) text file.  Is there a way to do the same sort of 
> thing with Mozilla?  It didn't seem to work when I tried it.  Also, with 
> Netscape 4.8, I could move the entire InBox or Sent to other machines 
> just by dropping that one file into the appropriate folder within 
> Netscape.  I tried this with the Linux version of Netscape 4.8 and it 
> worked, but I haven't tried it with Mozilla 1.6 yet - does it work that way?
> 
> Any suggestions as to the best e-mail client to use?

Many of us will answer mutt.  Although not having a graphic email client
might seem a handicap at first, once you get used to it, you become
quite amazed at its powerful features.  (Hrrm, I sound like an
advertisement).  I have a page on it, that ~I~ feel makes the transition
relatively painless at 

http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/mutt.html

If you aren't ready to make the jump to a text based email client (and
you should learn to use vi first, as that's the default editor in most
systems for mutt) you might like Sylpheed, a graphic email client that
many like--for those used to OE, the transition is relatively easy.
There's a couple of other graphic ones, Jonathan liked KDE's kmail for
awhile, but I think it was in the "new toy" category as I see he's gone
back to mutt.


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