Shotwell in Lucid - OT re email clients

[rikona]

This is a somewhat OT reply re email clients - stop here if you have
no interest.

Sunday, May 8, 2011, 12:50:16 AM, Joep wrote:

>> TheBat - nice client, many advantages - all OT, though - not gonna
>> start down that road. :-)
>>

JLB> It's a little strange to advocate a MS$ only mail client

I'm not really advocating others use it - just giving my view. I have
to run Windows anyway because of proprietary S/W, so either platform
is OK. I have been trying to move as much as possible off Win, though,
and currently run as little as possible in Win. Win and I don't get
along well. :-)

JLB> I looked it up and I don't see any advantages over Thunderbird.

It's mostly in the details. For example, archiving [even HTML] in text
format. I've been using text-only archiving for a long time. I have
millions of converted-to-text docs that are still easily searchable
today, some that were in formats that haven't been used in many, many
years and would be not even readable by any current software, much
less searchable. It has been a good long term approach.

I currently run Thunderbird, Claws, Opera, Agent, and others - they
each have their uses, but TheBat remains my first choice for most
email. Claws is nice if you haven't run it. I asked the Claws
developers if they might include some of the things TheBat does, that
I like. They have no intention of doing that, so, for me, it is still
not as attractive. TheBat is also excellent re security - check
'secure bat'.

JLB> I prefer coloured references with different colours per user,

So do I. TheBat does that well - even with a mix of 'regular' and
'initialed' quoting. :-) And, in a long, complex, snipped, multi
person discussion, I can easily see who 'light red' is. :-)

JLB> but hey, we all have our idiosyncrasies

Not so much idiosyncrasies as real capabilities I use quite often that
are not in any other client I know of.

JLB> and if you prefer a Windows mail-client for a Linux mailing list,

The list topic has nothing to do with my choice of email client - no
relation at all.

JLB> it's your choice and I respect it.

Good attitude - thanks. There are actually good, rational reasons for
the choice, as I have hinted above.

And, I hope I did not annoy you too much by the quoting. :-) If you,
or others, have read this far, I'd still be interested in knowing why
it seems to annoy you.

**BUT - since this is OT, please reply personally, NOT to the list.**

Thanks for the reply.

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 rikona