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[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Friday 11 October 2002 07:01 pm, Ryan Matteson wrote:
> 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?

Lots of little things that just didn't agree with the way I work.  For 
instance, I tried grabbing one line from the list of messages and 
dropping it in a folder and couldn't get it to work.  I finally figured 
out that I was trying to dang-n-drop the little envelop icon--that 
seems like a logical representative of the letter to me.  But no, you 
have to drag-n-drop the text.  The icon only represents the state of 
the message.  This is doubly annoying because it requires significanlty 
more mouse movement.  KMail lets me pick up the message anywhere on the 
line.

The default setup sorts on time that the mail is sent and it took me 
quite a while to figure out how to sort on when the mail was received.

A third example is that all the hot keys are control keys and the 
regular keys are unbound.  That seems wastful, but I can't find a way 
to rebind the keys.  Kmail agrees more with what I expected, and let's 
me rebind everything.

Like I said, it annoys me.  It does seem quite capable, though.

--Michael

--Michael

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