Re: TECH: Testing again, no new on-topic content (was Re: "Language Creation" in your conlang)

En réponse à Mark J. Reed :


>Let me again recommend Mozilla Thunderbird. It's free for Windows and
>handles IMAP correctly and isn't a security nightmare.  I haven't used it
>enough to verify that it doesn't crash frequently, though.
You know, you're the second person to advise me Thunderbird (a mail client 
which actually didn't exist yet when I first looked for mail clients and 
eventually chose Eudora ;)) ). I had tried another Unicode-aware client 
which was supposed to handle IMAP correctly (Pegasus Mail IIRC), but it 
crashed on me and took some mails with it (from an IMAP folder!!) so I 
quickly got rid of it :))) .

Right now, the only things that bother me with Thunderbird is:
- it doesn't have an official installer, and from what I've seen it's quite 
a mess to upgrade (wouldn't be a problem if it was a stable version, but 
from what I've seen it keeps uppgrading quickly). I use quite extensive 
lists of filters and I wouldn't like having to type them again (then again, 
if I just could import my filter list from Eudora, that would be OK :)) ).
- I just *hate* the three-window model that it uses (just like OE :(( ). It 
may be just a problem of eye-candy, but I just find the way Eudora handles 
window space much more practical.

All in all, I'm thinking of waiting for Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 before 
changing mail client. Or maybe using Opera M2 if I can get it to work this 
time (although I don't care for its looks either...).


>Yeah, I became disenchanted with Eudora long ago because they kept spending
>development effort on "improvements" that I didn't care about while not
>working on standards compliance, which I did very much care about.
And it's not as if they held such a good position that they can afford to 
do that. What in the world are they thinking? I use Eudora only because I 
don't have to pay for it. I would never even consider paying for it.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang. 

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