Re: email and newsreaders

[Maher Awamy <muhri muhri net>]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 23:57:27 +0200, Tobias Weber said:

> Hi,
>  As I'm currently in the process of switching to linux I did some 
>  "research", too. Here is a list of features I found important, 
>  numbers indicate that the program does NOT support it:
>  
>  1 Copy text from the message reader to the clipboard
>  2 Mark Messages unread
>  3 Copy Mails between Folders
>  4 Address Book
>  5 Imap
>  6 Sorting
>  7 PGP
>  
>  netscape 7
>  kmail 5 (4 is very primitive)
>  balsa 1 2 3 6 7 (4 uses GnomeCard, very good!)
>  mahogany 2 6 7 (5 is supported, but never worked here)
>  pronto 1 5 (Address book is not that good)

Just a correction, Pronto does support copy and paste - just XmHTML does not
and we offer lots of alternatives, built in GtkText, GtkHTML and CSCHtml and
when Mozilla GtkEmbed becomes stable enough, I'll support that too :)

Maher

>  postilion 3 (This is offspring of TkRat)
>  tkrat 3 (very stable and feature complete. My Choice)
>  
>  The list is sorted by my interface look/feel ranking, but as with 
>  most unix software memorizing some keyboard command makes 
>  you faster with eg tkrat than clicking around in netscape ever could.
>  
>  All tests were performed with the most recent versions (as of July 
>  11) and all comments are IMHO.
>  
>  --
>    Tobias Weber
>  
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