[ale] "Good" Newsreader for GNOME/Ubuntu?

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 13:33 -0400, Jason Day wrote:

> Second the thunderbird suggestion.  I use it at work for mail, RSS, and
> news from multiple NNTP servers.  Threading and attachments work very
> well.  The only thing it lacks, IMHO, is decent calendar integration.
> For now, anyway.
> 
> Jason

Yeah, it is okay for most of that.  The worst thing about it (and
Evolution, incidentally) is that they use the mbox format for saving
messages, which was one of the reasons that I moved away from
Thunderbird when I was using KDE.  Now that my message load isn't so
high, it doesn't make much of a difference any longer, but still...
*shrugs*.

I am still undecided as to what I am going to do.  For the moment, I
filed a few feature requests to Evolution, though one was already
rejected?apparently there is no sound character set detection mechanisms
available or writable.  I thought that detecting character sets would be
somewhat trivialish based on the content of a given message and the
ability to find what characters aren't ASCII and attempting to make
sense of them based on context, but I could be wrong on that.  I also
submitted a feature request for per-account HTML settings, as I am
supposed to use HTML mail for all the school's stuff, but I have mixed
feelings about using it elsewhere.  *shrugs*

The only other thing I really need to do is a little more research on
finding a "jump to the next unread" message.  What stinks is that the
way that it is set up, I can "get by" with showing all threads, but then
I have to find where the new messages are, which is kind of annoying.
There is a "Previous message" and a "next message" button, but those
don't take into consideration whether or not the previous or next
message is read or not?and that is really annoying.

Anyway, I may or may not jump over to Thunderbird.  Ease of use for me
is becoming more and more of a priority then it ever used to be, and
that means that the less programs I am using, the better.  It would seem
that the days of me wanting to get in front of the computer to tinker
endlessly with it are over, I just want to get my work done.  :-P

Kontact does seem to have a "leg up" on Evolution, in some ways, though
it lacks certain features that Evolution has as well.  It is interesting
how open source software provides you with a wide array of choices, but
in some fields, (PIM, being one of them right now) there isn't a
"perfect" solution that I have found yet.  Hopefully, that will change
in the next year or so.  PIM is, at least to me, quite important, simply
because I do not have my head on straight many days and if it weren't
for a good calendaring solution, I don't know that I would remember to
do much of anything!  :-)

    - Mike
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