On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 23:59, Craig Dickson wrote: > begin Patrick Kirk quotation: >
> > Every windows box has it. > > Sure, like downloading an executable installer for a better program is > so hard. > It is so hard. There are no other windows email clients that have the ability to put shortcuts on panels. Even if there were, why bother when OE is there and works? OE is a flexible easy to customise mail client that even the least technical user can use without phoning for help. As a simple example of why this matters, I tried KMail the other day. I ahve IMAP accounts on 4 machines. The imap folders tree on Kmail shows not just mailboxes but also every darn file in every directory. So if I want to find my debian-user folder I have to wadte through a tree that has over 500 entries and is not in alphabatical order. That kind of interface makes it unusable - the contrast with Outlook, Outlook Express, mutt and Evolution is obviuos. In the graphical trio, I have shortcuts on the left hand side of my screen to the 8 or so mailboxes I use all the time. In mutt, I have a line: mailboxes! 'echo ~/Mail/main/*' in my muttrc which means that mutt only tells me about interesting folders while spam, rootmail, etc. goes in ~/mail/filtered/ Its a pity because Kmail is a very nice program but I digress... My next door neighbour uses OE and regularly comes round asking for help after she's executed the latest virus someone has sent her or simply needs help finding where she accidentally dragged the toolbar. People like her need a simple mail client. If she were to use mutt, I'd have to move in with her! As for viruses, m$ screwed up. 'nuff said. It seems the plugin I suggested is available but I have no idea if it works or not. Like most technical problems, Google knows the answer... http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2001-July/009104.html Interestingly, the search for READING GPG SIGNED MESSAGES INLINE OUTLOOK EXPRESS brough up both Karsten self's rant on this subject and several references to him.
