[ILUG] Is it me, or is it all those mail clients ?

[Niall O Broin]

I've taken to using an OS-X notebook lately, and I'm looking for an email 
client which doesn't suck. Mutt is an obvious answer, but I've become used to 
pointy clicky MUA goodness with KMail. I've tried Mailsmith, Apple's Mail, 
PowerMail, Eudora and Mozilla. I haven't tried Entourage, but unless using it 
can also cure world hunger, I won't.

So what's wrong with them all, you might well ask? Well, they have this borked 
idea that an email address, an email account (POP or IMAP), and an SMTP 
server are joined at the hip. I have a number of email addresses which I use, 
a (different) number of servers from which I fetch mail, and another number 
of SMTP servers which I use to send mail.

When composing a mail, I want to be able to easily pick from any of my 
identities. I don't necessarily want to have an incoming folder for each 
account (I can set that up if I want) and I want to always use the SMTP 
server 'nearest' to me, depending on where I am.

KMail (correctly, in my view) handles identities and sending and receivers as 
separate entities. No other graphical email client of my experience does. I'd 
love to be told how wrong I am. 


-- 
Niall