[H-GEN] Re: HTML Mail in Mozilla

[Harry Phillips]

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Christopher Biggs wrote:
> 
> I think it reflects the difference between web browsing (mostly read
> only data, and if the browser crashes you just try again or switch
> browsers) and e-mail (important stuff that you don't want to lose, and
> switching clients is a Big Thing).
> 

This is why I have setup my workstation as an IMAP server. The mail 
client becomes just a mail browser, it doesn't store the mail.

I get fetchmail to collect the mail, spamassassin to check it, procmail 
to sort it and Courier-IMAP to make available on 127.0.0.1 to whatever 
mail client I feel like starting today.

Changing mail client's is no biggie when you do it that way. No need to 
migrate mail etc.

Even better is that if I read a message in Mozilla, Kmail doesn't 
display it as a new one. If I decide to try Thunderbird and don't like 
it then it doesn't matter, I just go back to Mozilla Mail.

One thing I do miss in Mozilla Mail, you can't mark the message unread, 
curious, all other client's I have tried capable of IMAP can mark the 
message unread.

-- 
Regards,
Harry Phillips
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