GUI mail client recommendations ...

[Gerard Seibert]

Danny Pansters wrote:

> On Sunday 07 May 2006 03:29, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > On Sun, 7 May 2006, Ian Moore wrote:
> > > On Sunday 07 May 2006 09:10, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > >> I've been using pine *forever* now and am finding it really hard to find
> > >> a good GUI to replace it :(  Tried kmail, didn't like it ...
> > >>
> > >> Off the top of my head, the only thing(s) it needs to do is:
> > >>
> > >> multiple identities
> > >> IMAP
> > >> PGP
> > >>
> > >> As much as I hate admitting doing things under Windows, I have used
> > >> Eudora in the past and like its interface, but, alas, there is no Eudora
> > >> for Unix
> > >
> > > I use kmail (part of kde) which is also very nice and will do all the
> > > above.
> >
> > I tried it, and was turned off very question ... my first beef ... I
> > couldn't seem to select multiple messags in the thread window to do a mass
> > operation on it ... for instance, in eudora, I could do 'shift-<up/dn>' to
> > highlight several articles ... under kmail, the up/dn arrow scrolls the
> > bottom message window ;(
> 
> As you've noticed the up and down keys are already used for scrolling in the 
> content widget.  Instead use shift or ctrl and the left mouse button instead 
> or the + and - keys (go to latter/next unread message) or the arrow-left and 
> arrow-right keys (go to latter/next message). See "Keyboard Shortcuts" in the 
> KMail handbook which is the obvious place to look ;-)
> 
> Finally, most core KDE apps have a settings -> shortcuts menu entry so you can 
> even change the defaults. Some people call this bloat.
> 
> Dan

If you need help with KMail and how to properly use and configure it,
might I suggest the following list:

KDE PIM users mailing list
kdepim-users at kde.org
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users


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Gerard Seibert
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