HTML Rendering in PMMail/2

[Brian Morrison]

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On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 04:43:50 -0700 (PDT), Steve Wendt wrote:

>On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:08:35 -0400, Larry Ebbitt wrote:
>
>>I've been using Linux most of the time since May and I've been enjoying it.
>>I still have not found a satisfactory news or mail reader, so I've been
>
>Has anyone tried Evolution?  From the screenshots, it looks too much like that 
>Outlook crap (not that I've paid much attention to what that looks like)...
>
>The biggest question is, are they trying too hard to copy the M$ way, the 
>standard Unix way, or something better than both, like Steve Lamb wants?  :)

I have not yet tried Evolution, but I do use Outlook at work and if
what you need is something with the features of Outlook it works quite
well with the exception of mail formatting, I can't get it set up to
avoid html entirely, quote the right way up and not spell check quoted
text. It is set up to always send plain text and truncate at 72
characters. Many of my colleagues can't understand why I do this, they
like 48 point flashing pink fonts, but I tell them that they should be
shot and we're all happy ;-)

If Evolution is made to follow the 'net standards properly and allow
you to turn off and remove from the UI the bits you don't want it could
be quite good. However it needs better filtering, Outlook's Inbox
Assistant is abysmal in comparison with PMMail's filters as for one it
can only perform a single action within any one filter. Useless!

I will see if Evolution is reasonable some time, I really do need to
decide on what I want as my desktop on Linux. I know why Gnome got
started, but I must say that if KDE is fully GPL'd I hope that the two
teams are big enough to converge on a common standard and stop fighting
each other. Linux is about cooperation not conflict I hope.

But I'm still sure that a Linux PMMail port would be welcomed with open
arms. If there is one app that people will generally pay for it is a
mail client, providing it is good enough.


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Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.org.uk

 "Almost noon, and she had yet to go the launderette in Concreton to 
 thaw out chickens in the spin-drier..."

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