[NCLUG] Hello. . .

[Neil Doane]

* Jeff Elizondo (jeffeliz at hotmail.com) on [03-01-01 13:10] did utter:
> Hello everyone. . .This is my first message out to the group.  I just 
> recently joined the list.  I have a question concerning mail clients.  I've 
> recently been trying to find a stable mail client to use in Gnome (RH 7.0, 
> kernel 2.4.2).  I've tried balsa and cronosII and haven't been too impressed 
> with their features or their stability.  Anyone have any other ideas?  I'm 
> looking for something along the lines of (gasp!) outlook in windoze.  I'll 
> be using the client here at work where we use an exchange server, although 
> I've been connecting to it using pop in Linux.  I'm trying to convince some 
> folks here that Linux is a viable desktop OS, but this is one of the big 
> roadblocks I've run into.  Believe it or not, even though I work for 
> Hewlett-Packard, I can't get a free version of OpenMail!

I'm a mutt-man myself, however, if what you're looking for is sweet GUI
goodness, there are several options.  Browse freshmeat.net under the
X11:email section (http://freshmeat.net/browse/767/) and see if anything
grabs you.  Here's some I found at a glance.

irs-net
http://www.irs-net.com/

Pronto! 
http://freshmeat.net/projects/pronto!/

Post Office
http://www.tarball.net/postoffice/

Postilion
http://www.postilion.org/

> _________________________________________________________________
> Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

That's just evil. :)



Neil







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