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[Andrew "ruskie" Levstik <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 16:35:58 +0200
Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls AT pareto.nl> wrote:

> 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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sylpheed for email(you've got normal, -claws and -gtk2 version)
abiword for .doc
gnumeric for .xls

That's all I need besides pure mozilla...
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