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Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 16 January 2008, gibbonsr-ml@××××××××××××××××××.com wrote: |
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>> ----- "Mike Frysinger" <vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> you're killin me man. can you please fix your e-mail client. some |
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>>> notes: |
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>>> - line wrapping is totally hosed |
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>>> - top posting is crazy |
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>>> - threading is busted |
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>>> -mike |
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>> Is this any better? |
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> you fixed top posting, but that's a user thing, not e-mail client. your lines |
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> still arent wrapped and threading is broken :/ |
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Yeah, but sometimes those user things are the hardest to fix :D |
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>> I am using the Zimbra web client. |
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> sounds like it's time for an upgrade. does it offer imap or something which |
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> you could hook a real client up to ? often times imap/imaps is exposed and |
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> admins forget to turn it off (or just dont know what it's all about so leave |
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> it alone for fear of busting stuff). |
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Well since I am the administrator / owner / user / whatever , I know |
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that imap/s is on and use it for my Treo and thunderbird, it is just |
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Zimbra has such a nice web client I actually prefer it over thunderbird |
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> another possibility would be to use gmail as a gateway ... i have a few gmail |
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> accounts that i use as a dumping ground from other accounts and then gmail |
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> exposes a ton of storage and pop/imap. |
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> at any rate, i hate to see someone with potential trip up over such a basic |
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> thing. clearly you're a level headed guy who thinks things through which is |
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> a highly desirable quality. |
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Well I am willing to work with it, what do you use for your mail |
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client. I don't really like thunderbird, clunky interface and I don't |
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like the way it handles mailing list. |
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>> It is so funny corporate world wants top post, tech mailing list want prefix |
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>> with inline edit ... I'm not use to the latter yet. |
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> corporate world wants what microsoft feeds them. since exchange/outlook is |
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> the defacto corporate standard, all these corporate folks learned about |
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> e-mail with those tools which use top posting. anything else scares the |
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> corporate bunch. the real cs / open source / tech world approach things |
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> logically, thus you get inline/context quoting. it's been/is/will be this |
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> way before/during/after microsoft's reign. |
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> -mike |
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Great synopsis |
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How are things now, this is thunderbird. |
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