Philip Tellis wrote:
It only works with a POP/IMAP server and does not support reading inbox from /var/[spool/]mail/philip so I cannot use it. It also does not support dynamic signatures.
Both these features are supported by pine. You'd think that a modern email client would at least be able to match the feature set of one that's been around for almost 20 years. :P
I have migrated from a windows environment so I only know GUI based pop/imap/smtp clients. Thunderbird is very good for my clients who I want to migrate into linux. What I found very nice about it is that apart from copy/paste into other text editors and good quality print facility, it also gives individual mail box groups for diffrent accounts, so all incoming, sent, drafts and templates reside in their seperate account folders instead of all in the global folders. OE has a 'message rules' option but thats only for incoming mails. And like OE, there is support for multiple smtps. There are new security features too like not opening images and junk mail filtering etc...
This goes to show that well written programs will be the key to simplify linux and pull more and more users towards it. Evolution was a compromise and a disappointment, but thunderbird made up for that.
Regards,
Rony.