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Re: Email client choice

 

well nobody uses email client actually these days but still an email client
is a part of an OS so its necessary to be included. there are many apps that
no one use/some use but still they are part of the OS so an email client is
also a part of the OS so inclding it is important

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Luther Goh Lu Feng <elfgoh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> *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
>
> 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.
>
> -- yotam
>
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Mario Behling <mb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> What do you think about it, Julien?
>>
>> Ciao Mario
>>
>>
>
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