>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Sebold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> On 21 Tammuz 5761, Kurt Lieber wrote: >> So, here's a list of my requirements and I'm hoping you guys can >> point me to an MUA that meets them. If so, I'll gladly switch over >> to Linux full-time and forswear Microsoft forever. :) Charles> Except for calendaring - Emacs + Gnus + BBDB + gnus-pers.el Charles> to enable one to switch "accounts" easily while composing Charles> posts/emails. Emacs has calendaring but currently can't Charles> share meeting info, etc. like Outlook can. I was going to suggest gnus, but seems I was beaten to it. (I wasn't sure about the preview pane/show fisst 3 lines) Charles> But you seem very wedded to the _way_ Outlook does things; I Charles> can almost guarantee that the fact that Gnus can do all this, Charles> doesn't mean that you'll like it. Extensive customization is Charles> possible and easy but one must learn a little Lisp to do it. Also true. Of course there are features GNUS has, I don't know if outlook does, that I think are worthwhile: * A newsreader * Excellent threading support (don't know how outlook compares) * Scoring of messages, allowing you to more easily pick out important ones * Automated scoring, if you want (didn't read the last 12 messages with that subject line, probably don't want this one either) * The ability to reformat badly formatted messages * PGP/GPG integration if you want it with mailcrypt * A truly kick-ass editor for editing outgoing mails * Prolly others... Just trying to point out that while you can't make emacs/gnus/bbdb/gnus-pers.el outlook, there's probably stuff it does Outlook doesn't, or doesn't as well. Charles> Perhaps Emacs + VM + BBDB would do what you want more Charles> precisely; not sure, haven't tried it in a while. Just switched from vm, and would reccomend gnus :) Never really used outlook, so can't speak as to whether it's more like outlook. It doesn't provide (as well, certainly) the "one screen which lists how many new emails I have in all my folders" which is why I switched to gnus. -Eric
