most TLUG members send email from MSWin

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sun Mar 7 14:24:39 UTC 2004


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. 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 use mail almost exlusively on Linux but occasionally on OS/2 or 
Windows.  I mainly use Mozilla 1.6 on all platforms, but have other mail 
clients available.  I run an IMAP server, so that no matter what 
computer/OS/mail client I use, they're all syncronized WRT messages 
read, sent etc.
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