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[Ryan Matteson]

On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 10:40, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Friday 11 October 2002 12:33 am, Ryan Matteson wrote:
> > I am typing this email with it now. I personally think it is
> > a GREAT mail reader. Evolution has GPG integration, a good
> > calendar, decent address book, nice composer and it's free. It
> > also works perfectly with IMAP/POP3 hosts.
> 
> I think it is an okay mail reader, but not my first choice.  My 
> impression is that it is a good emulation of outlook, so if you already 
> know all the outlook keystrokes, etc, it will feel similar.  I kept 
> finding that it annoyed me. 

Why did it annoy you?

 I prefer kmail for an outlook-like mailer.  
> I really prefer the emacs vm package.
> 
> Evolution does have nice integration with all the other PIM stuff.  
> Kmail isn't there, yet, though I understand it is moving rapidly in 
> that direction.  Evolution also has the advantage that you can pay and 
> get support for MSExchange.
> 
> --Michael
> 
> > - Ryan
> >
> > On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 23:59, George Johnson wrote:
> > > Any opinions on ximian?  Looks almost exactly like outlook.
> > > http://www.ximian.com/
> > >
> > > I will try it out tomorrow and bring a copy to the installfest.
> > >
> > > gj
> > >
> > >
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