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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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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