On February 07, 2004 10:33, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:24:49PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > >So if TB is supposedly better than Lookout, how does it differ? > > > So far, TB sounds identical to Outlook. > > > > Uhm, let's see. Open Source, Bayesian filtering built in, decent > > plugin support, awesome IMAP support, doesn't compose HTML mail by > > default, I've never seen TB try to define a charset in the > > Subject, adheres to far more standards. Oh, and is a few years > > younger than Lookout! > > OK, then why does TB still have more in common than OE than a real > mail client? >
I'd add a few things to that list; it uses mbox (but not maildir since it doesn't work in Windows) and it defaults to bottom replying (although that can be changed by the user). It also doesn't propagate viruses as easily (if every Outlook user was using TB/Moz instead, we wouldn't have nearly the same problem with viruses clogging up mail servers and inboxes). The included Bayesian spam filter is probably the easiest to use for average users of any mail client in existence (that was what kept me with Mozilla/TB until I figured out how to invoke bogofilter from kmail; spam filtering with kmail is still too difficult for the average user). I wouldn't call TB a real mail client yet but it's also not akin to Outlook. I'd say it's about 3/4 of the way towards being a real mail client and if it were to get (1) list-reply and (2) more versatile filters (ability to pipe through or execute external commands and to rewrite headers for example) then it would pretty well be a real mail client. -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. -Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations -- David P James Ottawa, Ontario http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/ There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. -Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
