Curt tone? + e-mail threading/sorting

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, - - s r b - - wrote:

> Jim Higson wrote:
>
>> If you ever make it to Linux, there are plenty of good mail clients 
>> that'll keep the mailing list messages (like this one) seperate from your 
>> main mail and thread them like a newsgroup. That way I tend not to mind 
>> the high volume because it is easy to follow and not obscuring my personal 
>> mail. KMail and Evolution are both excellent.
>> 
>> (and yes, I'm sure there are better-than-OE mail clients for Windows too)
>> 
>
> Mozilla Thunderbird works great for this too. And the windows and LINUX 
> versions are identical, so it is easy to switch back and forth (in fact I 
> store my e-mail on a FAT32 partition that both LINUX and windows Thunderbirds 
> can access allowing me to read/get/send e-mails seamlessly from whatever OS I 
> am in at the moment).

Just a note that Outlook doesn't preserve threads - but OutlookExpress does (AFIK)

And filters are a good way to sort mailing list traffic into non-inbox folders.

Satish