most TLUG members send email from MSWin

[William Park]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 05:49:33PM -0500, Paul King wrote:
> I use mail on both OSes, but unfortunately, mail has been stored for
> years on the Windows (NTFS) partition. So, it has become a habit to
> the only use Evolution for downloading without deleting mail from the
> server and occasionally sending mail; where Pegasus (the Windows
> client) is used as my permanent mail archive. Automated mail sorting,
> spam filtering, and distribution list creation are far better on
> Pegasus than on Evolution or other UNIX-based mailers I've used.

Nonsense...  Procmail, Mutt, Tin.

> Secondly, there is no better newsreader than Forte Agent, although Pan
> is catching up and is doing some nice back-end stuff with
> multithreading, which Agent doesn't appear to do. Pan also has a
> wonderful ability to store information for several news servers, which
> Agent does not do either. But still Agent's advantages outweigh the
> disadvantages.
> 
> I would toss all that to one side if Pan and Evolution evolved beyond
> my Windows apps.

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