Lo, on Thursday, July 12, Kurt Lieber did write: > I'm wedded to the way Outlook displays information. With one look at > the main Outlook screen, I can tell how many unread messages I have in > each account, the content of the first unread message in my primary > account (via the preview pane) as well as whether any of these messages > have attachments, are important, etc. > > This allows me to leave Outlook running in the background and keep an > eye on it throughout the day. If a program requires me to switch around > between multiple screens to get the same sort of presentation, then it's > lost it's value to me since I now have to bring the program to the > front, cycle through all the windows and determine if anything important > has come in.
Oh, if *that*'s all you want, then fine. I don't have multiple accounts, but I do subscribe to a number of high-traffic mailing lists, including debian-user. I use fetchmail, running in daemon mode, to bring them down, then procmail to sort them out into a collection of inbox folders, and gbuffy (in an eponymous Debian package) to report on what's in each folder (marked as a sticky window so it's on all of my virtual desktops). Then use the MUA of your choice. I'm a fan of VM, because I'm used to the Emacs keybindings, and it's the only MUA I've found which lets you edit messages that you receive in-place. Your requirements may differ. I've been meaning to check out GNUS for a while, but as someone else said (I think on this list) it has a learning curve that you can use as a plumb line, and I've just not taken the time to get used to it. Richard
