[Gllug] Alternative e-mail client for those poor Windows users

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 22:36, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> On Oct 16 2002, Mike wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 11:29, John Winters wrote:
> > > I'm getting a steady stream of people (mostly friends) coming to me with
> > > tales of woe about the latest Outlook worms.  The obvious thing to tell
> > > them is to stop using Outlook but they still need to acces their e-mail.
> > > 
> > > Can anyone recommend a good, preferably free (speech) Windows e-mail
> > > client?
> > 
> > Netscape 7/Mozilla makes an excellent mail client, and a better brwoser
> > then IE these days, IMO. I've persuaded several Windows using
> > acquaintances to try it, and they've all liked it thus far. The tabs and
> > group bookmarks are a killer feature of the browser that IE can't match,
> > and the mail client is very nice, I have 50 users on it at work, with
> > few complaints.
> 
> Another killer feature is the ability to say "no, damnit! sites are
> _not_ allowed to open new/resize/move/raise/lower windows! muhhahahah!"
> or so my housemate says anyway. I'm not suggesting anything about his
> surfing habits, but _if_ you're prone to one-handed surfing I imagine
> that's something you'd want your browser to support... ;)

There are a lot of sites these days that aren't the traditional home of
"one handed surfers" that are growing annoying pop-ups. I have pop-ups
disabled, and every time I look over the shoulder of an IE using
colleague, I'm amazed at the quantity of crap I never normally have to
see.
 
> Don't know anything about the mail client Mozilla offers though.

It's a pretty decent IMAP client. My main complaint is that to configure
it sensibly, you need to hack the user.js file directly - some of the
desirable config options just aren't available through the interface.
That said, doing it that way has advantages. One can set things up in
such a way that users can't screw up the settings using the GUI.

Mike.


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