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[Jonathan E. Brickman]

>> Anyone using IMAP for email?  Is Thunderbird the only reliable and
>> fully-functional (HTML editing and viewing, multiple accounts, etc.)
>> email application on Linux?  Every 3-6 months I tend to try KMail or
>> Evolution or something, but they have always disappointed.
>>     
>
> T-Bird is better than "LookOut" and "LookOut Express" from MickySoft as
> well. So far, it can't be beat in the Linux world, IMHO.
>
> Fred
>   
I think so too.  I tested out KMail yesterday, and found that when I 
tried to clean out an IMAP folder, it insisted on copying all of the 
messages locally as the first step.  Yecch.  I also tried alpine again, 
and remembered why IMAP was originally known as a terribly 
resource-heavy protocol originally:  alpine, like pine, doesn't cache 
anything, and (shockingly) is slower today on my broadband than pine was 
in 1994 over my prized 28.8 with Slackware.

I suppose I will try Evolution again, just to make the circle complete, 
though Novell doesn't really seem to care much about a huge chunk of 
both investment and potential market.  I suppose it is really 
Microsoft's investment in Novell making it happen that way.

J.E.B.