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Eudora Replacement



On Wednesday 13 October 2004 01:04, David Kramer wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote, On 10/12/2004 09:08 PM:
> > I'm using KMail at work, and while I like it, every once in a while it
> > gets into a loop and takes about 98% of the CPU. (KDE 3.2 SuSE 9.1). My
> > coworker has the same problem on KDE 3.3.
>
> That's why I finally gave up on KMail.  It would sometimes freeze for over
> a minute.  Unacceptable.  Now I use Thunderbird at home and pine through
> ssh or squirrelmail through ssl when abroad.

The only time it freezes up for me is when it is applying filters and calling 
spamassassin.

> KMail had one killer feature that seems to be lacking in almost all GUI
> MUA's. I need the ability to save outgoing messages in folders I choose. 
> For instance, I have a seperate Sent folder for job search related emails. 
> Pine is absolutely wonderful at this, with it's "Fcc:" pseudoheader, and
> even allows me to associate address book entries with Fcc: settings. 
> Squirrelmail also lets me do this.  KMail does this well, but I can't deal
> with the lockups.

So, if that was solved, you could come back into the fold?

B




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