Subj : Email Clients...
To   : Gord Hannah
From : Bat Lang
Date : Wed Jul 27 2005 05:28 pm


 -=> Quoting Gord Hannah to Peter Knapper, [25 Jul 05  07:14:51] <=-

 GH> Replying to a message from Peter Knapper 3:772/1.10 to All,

 GH> About Email Clients..., On Mon Jul 25 2005

 PK> I have been looking at Polarbar Mailer and while I am not a huge
 PK> Java fan due to the memory requirements, it does look pretty good to
 PK> me. The big plus is that with Java its pretty much platform
 PK> independant.

 PK> So what is your favourite Email Client folks?

 GH> I use Mr2Ice, however it has limits as well I need to detach
 GH> attachments before viewing them and it will not read those pesky
 GH> emails that some people send me in html.  I have looked at Polarbar
 GH> and am impressed.

Hi Gord,
I too use Mr2Ice and have the same comments, but have not looked at
anything else, as I prefer a text mode EC, to which I can 'hook' my
favorite text editor--Boxer--so it is used rather than the built-in one.
So, when I get those emails with a couple of atch's, I hit Alt-X, which
loads the msg into Boxer. Then I can view the first Atch, which is
normally the one you need to see, and if I decide to reply, I mark the
text of the atch, hit f3, which prompts for a file name, and I tell it
'A' and it saves that text to filename A. f4 takes me back out of the
editor, and I hit r)eply, and the msg is back in my editor, but this
time all it says is Atch 1, Atch 2 et al. Just below those atch's I hit
Alt-I (for Import a file), I tell it A and it imports that text into the
msg, from there it's a normal msg reply I have a Boxer macro to insert
the > quote marks, and it's off to the races. Once you've done it a few
times, it becomes mechanical. The next one I save to 'A' the editor asks
for: Overwrite or Append, and normally overwrite is chosen. Give that a
try. YMMV  Good Modeming!  /\oo/\

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