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  • From: Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls AT pareto.nl>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] App. suggestions
  • Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 16:35:58 +0200

Hello all,

I am looking for suggestions for applications to use.

My first big one is mail. At the moment I am using thunderbird, and it is fine. In the past I have used mutt and wanderlust. Mutt is being slow updating one of the imap accounts and it would be nice to be able to see an overview of the accounts while navigating through the mail, which is not really possible with mutt.

Does anyone have any ideas. I am looking for something that can be pretty much completely controlled with the keyboard, and ideally that supports emacs bindings. On the mail end, I have not sat down and worked out and configured the rather complicated chain for getting mail from multiple sites (imap and pop) leaving them on the server, but syncing deletions with them as well (need to access them from a number of different machines), as then I can use just about any mua.

OpenOffice is going to take forever to compile, so I am wondering if anyone has a good suggestion for word processor, spreadsheet. I need to be able to read M$ Word docs that are sent to me, and be able to send them back in the same format. I have looked at Abiword, but it falls down with tables amongst other things.

Thanks for any help,

Rohan




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