[geeks] Apple software: the stuff you "gotta have"

[Michael Parson]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 04:44:03PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> I wrote:
>
>>> I may be a Luddite by I like the idea of email being simple.
>
> Joshua Boyd wrote: 
>
>> Are you refering to Mail.app or HTML email?
>
> Both. 

Amen.

I still do most of my mail with nmh.  I read list-mail with mutt to get
threading, but even after about 5 years of it, my fingers are still
mostly trained at doing things in pine (which I used before switching to
(n)mh about 12 years ago) better than mutt.  I detest trading email with
people on yahoo and hotmail, all that grotesque formatting and markup.
I'm sure there is a setting on their end to force plain-text email, at
least, I'd hope there is a setting to do that, but the default sends me
a lot of crap that I have to weed through to read the content.

>> And finally Mail.app is much nicer over dial-up than mutt.
>
> Do you mean that you connect to a Mac using a virtual screen program
> such as VNC and run Maill.app that way, or does it have a CLI
> interface?

I imagine he means doing dial-up from the mac and comparing running Mutt
on the Mac with runnign Mail.app on the Mac?

>> At the moment I'm having a hard time coming up with exactly what it
>> is about Mail.app that I like so much better than Evolution, but I
>> detest evolution.
>
> Is that OutLook Express version 2?

Evolution is a graphical mail program for Linux (does it compile on
other platforms yet?).  It has a plugin from Novell that lets you read
your mail on an Exchange server, it uses the same xml/html interface
that the Outlook Web Access uses.

>> The thing I miss most in mail.app is loosing the single key short    
>> cuts.  The other thing I miss the most is the tag actions stuff.     
>
> I use them all the time. I dislike having to use the mouse or multiple
> keys for often used functions.
>
> Geoff.
>
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