[Gllug] [O/T] Grr... new keyboard

[Peter Corlett]

On 12 Mar 2009, at 00:24, Nix wrote:
[...]
> It's not as if decent mail clients are exactly hard to find.

Surprisingly, they are. All Software Sucks, after all.

The worst MUA I've encountered is Lotus Notes. It's so bad, it makes  
Outlook look good.

The least-worst GUI MUA I've found is Apple's Mail.app. When I connect  
with my 3G dongle, Mail.app notices the interface coming up and fires  
up and burns a meg or two on idle IMAP chatter. I love the way that it  
occasionally gets so confused that it eats the local mail database and  
loses all of its configuration which is the main reason I use IMAP  
because it keeps the mail safe. And of course it's not FOSS, which  
some people care about. (I mostly care about whether it locks-in my  
data, which it doesn't.)

On the Unix command line, Mutt's my favourite for single-mailbox  
browsing, but I don't like its folder support. Pine has much nicer  
folder support, but the rest of it is clunky.

One day, I'll write a MUA that doesn't suck. I've been saying that  
since 1996.


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