Re: [Sheflug] B0rked email clients

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 home [at] alexhudson.com wrote:

> Yes, I realise that (btw - does Ctrl-J not work in pine?). To be honest, this is one reason why I _prefer_ HTML mail - whitespace is more or less meaningless, and there doesn't seem to be a way around the age-old problem 'my email client doesn't like this', since there doesn't seem to be one solution which satisfies everyone, esp. text vs. gui users. Email just sucks ... to me, wrapping is equally bad, esp. when threads go on. I always thought pine had intelligent reformatting, though, if not C-J then something else... maybe I'm just dreaming though..

Oh yeah, so it does. :)

> oriented and component driven, I really hope they don't integrate some
> of this stuff in - even if their projects are GPL, more and more of
> this functionality will integrated with closed products (Aethera, for
> example, will probably integrate with the closed Kompany server), and
> we're back to square one with non-Fr! ee software. That really annoys
> me...

I don't see Aethera taking off any time soon, it's pretty crummy.
I wish someone would write an email client that didn't try to make tea/do
the dishes. All I need is an address book and a decent sorting threading
functionality, TBH I remember better mail clients on the Amiga circa 1994.

> I believe ActiveState Komodo does Python too, but I couldn't be sure..
> same reservations apply about that too.. personally, NEdit does most
> of what I need, so I generally stick with that :-)

It's based on Mozilla, which to me makes no sense at all, and looks like a
web browser (!?!?!). PyQt would be my preferred interface, so I suppose I
should get to work. :)

I'm not a big fan of ActiveState's other IDEs anyway.



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