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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] App. suggestions
  • Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 09:03:00 -0700

Quoting Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls AT pareto.nl>:
> Hello all,

Hi again. :)

> 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.

Thunderbird is fairly nice, but what I did was setup my own mail server and
just
have all my accounts forward there (though you could use fetchmail, etc. to
retrieve the e-mails) and use IMAP for my webmail (horde and imp) to connect
to, or IMAPS if I want to use a remote connection (say thunderbird, sylpheed,
evolution, etc.).

If you don't want to run your own server, kmail (from kdepim, IIRC) or
thunderbird work well. If you're a GNOME person perhaps sylpheed or evolution2
(MS Outlook-like).

> 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.

You can use OpenOffice-bin (which is the latest OO at 1.1.2), which would
install faster. :) If you don't mind having KDE installed koffice can import
MS
Word and Adobe PDF documents (though it can only save to the former, IIRC).

> Thanks for any help,
>
> Rohan

-sandalle

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