[pmmail-list] Alternatives

[Gregory L. Marx]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 02:53:23 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:

How does switching to a *NIX based email client help those of us using either the WIN or OS2 versions of PMMail ???
Are you suggesting changing from either windows or OS2 to Linux so as to not use PMMail ???

Color me confused ...

Greg

>On Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:28:22 +1100, Rod... Whitworth wrote:
>
>>You are witnessing the destruction of the potential market by ignoring
>>the diminishing number of loyal idiot^H^H^H^H^H customers who may have
>>promoted the new version.
>
>I expect to be an ex-customer shortly....
>
>>I have clients who were told by me that we could expect new
>>developments more than a year ago. They are embracing Lotus
>>Domino/Notes. Others don't tell me what they are doing.
>
>Take a look at Evolution (http://www.ximian.com/). I just installed it
>on my Linux box and it's pretty nice. I do find some of the menus
>lacking in things I've come to expect from PMMail, and there's a few
>operational things that are missing (like only quoting selected text),
>but since it's open source, I could always hack those in myself.
>
>I'm about to upgrade Linux on my office server, and as soon as it can
>run Evolution (it needs a newer Gnome than I currently have), I figure
>I'll retire PMMail. BSW would do well to check out Evolution as an
>example of bleeding-edge capability.
>
>Ken
>mailto:shiva@well.com
>http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/
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