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[Luther Goh Lu Feng <elfgoh@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think there may still be use cases for email clients. For example, my less tech savvy colleagues access their company email via Microsoft Outlook. For me, I just redirect it to my main email account.


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>From: Yotam Medini יותם מדיני <yotam.medini@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: Mario Behling <mb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Cc: lubuntu-desktop <lubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sun, January 3, 2010 6:28:42 PM
>Subject: Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Email client choice
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>With my GMail account, I use both GMail's web-ui, but I also use local mail-client via IMAP4.
>I use the latter, in the following cases:
>+ Hebrew text editing (right-to-left)
>+ Discussing and quoting programming code.
>>   For this I like to even use external EDITOR (emacsclient).
>+ Attaching several files - which is faster in local client, than a safety-paranoid web-browser.
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>-- yotam
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>On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Mario Behling <mb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>Hi,
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>>>>I was also thinking a few days ago about the need for inclusion of a
>>>>mail client. These days I hardly know anyone using mail clients. Many
>>>>non-expert users prefer to use webmail. Secondly many power users also
>>>>use webmail or even a remote server desktop in order to keep their
>>>>data in one place and easily available even if they change devices.
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>>>>What do you think about it, Julien?
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>>>>Ciao Mario
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