[pmmail-list] thunderbird?
Marty Rimpau
pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:04:01 -0700
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Hi, just an observation, but thunderbird does not work well with our
screen readers. We screen reader users have to use the key board
exclusively, and when reporting on an alternative email program, this
should be taken in to consideration, as non standard windows interfaces
become more and more a thing of the future, unfortunately.
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:18:23 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:
>Mike Kilroy wrote:
>
>>Anyone had experience switching to thunderbird and want to share?
>>
>>
>
>I converted, and I'm not going back.
>
>There are a couple of things I don't like. I miss the ability to select
>a chunk of text, reply, and have the reply consist only of that chunk,
>but there is a workaround that only takes two more keystrokes, and it's
>been reported as a bug, so it will probably get added. T'bird stores
>one file per folder, instead of one file per message. I don't like
>that, but in practice it hasn't been a problem.
>
>The HTML handling is infinitely better, of course. That's why I did
>it. T'bird is quite configurable, much more so than PMMail. You can
>use the PMMail 3-pane view, or if you don't like that, there are a
>number of other options.
>
>There's an active (and vocal) community developing T'bird. That's the
>strongest intangible benefit.
>
>--
>- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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<FONT FACE="MS Sans Serif" DEFAULT="FACE"><FONT SIZE="1" POINTSIZE="8" DEFAULT="SIZE">Hi, just an observation, but thunderbird does not work well with our screen readers. We screen reader users have to use the key board exclusively, and when reporting on an alternative email program, this should be taken in to consideration, as non standard windows interfaces become more and more a thing of the future, unfortunately. <BR>
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:18:23 -0700, Tim Roberts wrote:<BR>
<BR>
>Mike Kilroy wrote:<BR>
><BR>
>>Anyone had experience switching to thunderbird and want to share?<BR>
>> <BR>
>><BR>
><BR>
>I converted, and I'm not going back.<BR>
><BR>
>There are a couple of things I don't like. I miss the ability to select <BR>
>a chunk of text, reply, and have the reply consist only of that chunk, <BR>
>but there is a workaround that only takes two more keystrokes, and it's <BR>
>been reported as a bug, so it will probably get added. T'bird stores <BR>
>one file per folder, instead of one file per message. I don't like <BR>
>that, but in practice it hasn't been a problem.<BR>
><BR>
>The HTML handling is infinitely better, of course. That's why I did <BR>
>it. T'bird is quite configurable, much more so than PMMail. You can <BR>
>use the PMMail 3-pane view, or if you don't like that, there are a <BR>
>number of other options.<BR>
><BR>
>There's an active (and vocal) community developing T'bird. That's the <BR>
>strongest intangible benefit.<BR>
><BR>
>-- <BR>
>- Tim Roberts, <FONT COLOR=0000ff><U>timr@probo.com<FONT COLOR=000000 DEFAULT="COLOR"></U><BR>
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.<BR>
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