[OT] Good^H^H^H^HAcceptable NG/email client?

[Paulo Pinto]

On Wednesday, 25 July 2012 at 04:12:36 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> Couple months ago I came across ClawsMail which, at first,
> seemed to actually be good enough to finally pull me away from 
> Outlook
> Express. Which was nice because I was getting really tired of 
> OE's
> issues: lack of spellcheck, can't send unicode, proprietary 
> storage
> format, certin NG postings only show up as blank posts with the 
> content
> as an attachment, and some other smaller issues. Because of 
> that, I was
> even willing put up with ClawsMail's use of that wretched GTK.
>
> But aside from a few (umm, actually a LOT of) smaller quibbles 
> with
> ClawsMail that I'd been willing to overlook, I'm now noticing 
> some
> major flaws when typing a message:
>
> 1. Word wrap is a joke. Ie, it never
> re-flows. Line lengths just keep shrinking as you edit. I
> constantly have to rejoin partial lines of text. PITA.
>
> 2. Undo is *completely* broken. Period. Sometimes it works 
> right. And
> then sometimes it just starts trampling random parts of your 
> text
> *instead* of undoing whatever change you *just made*. Redo 
> doesn't
> always seem reliable either.
>
> Thunderbird's gone nowhere but downhill last number of
> years, just like Firefox. And I'm not a fan of Opera, and 
> Win7's mail
> program sucks.
>
> Anyone know of a NG/email client, available on Win (preferably 
> cross
> platform
> - I do want to switch to Lin eventually) that isn't shit?


Not sure what your problem with Thunderbird is, I am still an 
happy user of it.

At work, due to software restrictions I am forced to live with 
Live Email, former Outlook Express for NG access.