replacement for netscrape mail

[Erik Price]

On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 01:19  PM, Rodent of Unusual Size 
wrote:

> mozilla seems cool as a browser, but does it do mail?  how about
> other alternatives?

I've been using Mozilla as a browser since 1.0, and have had nothing 
but positive experiences with it (except for some reason on 
monster.com, where I see some strange rendering errors, but that is the 
*only* site where I see them).  But just last week, on Wednesday, I 
decided to try Mozilla mail.  I was using Outlook at work (the standard 
MUA where I work), and every time I sent a post to gnhlug-discuss, I 
had to manually hit CR at the end of each line or face the wrath of the 
line-wrap nazis.  I was nervous that I wouldn't be able to import my 
old mail, that it wouldn't be compatible with the Exchains servers my 
company uses, and a host of other worries.

Let me just say that it is a great mail client.  No problems with 
importing old mail (though it took over an hour to fetch all my old 
mail).  No problems with the Exchains servers (though I'm on POP3 now 
so I have to make my own backups of my mail).  No complicated 
seven-step wizard to set up a rule for email filtering, and even then 
the filters didn't work half the time.  CNET says Mozilla is actually a 
better mail client performance-wise, but doesn't offer the calendaring 
compatibility with Exchains.  I don't use the calendaring anyway.

Basically, I think it's great.


Erik





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Erik Price                                   (zombies roam)

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