Talk:Email

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Wouldn't it be better to do usability studies for applications by application (in this case email clients) instead of distribution?

I'ld expect entries for Mozilla, Netscape, Kmail, mutt and pine here.

--MathFox 06:19, 14 Jun 2004 (EDT)

Yes

I agree. It definitely seems more efficient to organize the results by application rather than distribution. Especially since the developers of the most popular applications have undoubtedly undertaken considerable effort to make sure their applications are relatively consistent regardless of the distribution, operating system or platform. While there may be some differences in the useability of a particular application between distributions, the most significant differences will probably be between versions of the application.

Perhaps the ideal solution would be to have it indexed under multiple categories such as application name, version, distribution, etc. For example, a useability review for the Kmail email client on Suse 9.1 would be listed under both Email-Kmail as well as Distributions-Suse-9.1-Email-Kmail-Version. Obviously there could be many other variables as well (hardware, library versions, etc). Perhaps this could be done with aliases or some sort of taxonomy organziation.

--Peter 07:19, 14 Jun 2004 (EDT)

In a Wiki you can link like a web... A Redhat page can contain links to Mozilla and Mozilla-RedHat while the Mozilla page might link to Mozilla-SuSE and Mozilla-RedHat

--MathFox 08:39, 14 Jun 2004 (EDT)

Email Servers ?!

Somehow I have problems with this section. I wouldn't necessarily call an mta an "Email Server" and expected a section about pop/imap. At least I think a short introduction about what these beasts are doing and what not is helpful. Especially if the page is for newbies. They are probably more interested in what is this all about than which mta fit's my needs. Most people send emails with netscape/mozilla/mutt/pine and than it's on it's way... somehow.

First things first

I just started trying to use Linux on a Win98 system that crashed about 6 mos. ago. I downloaded a copy of Knoppix and booted it from the CD. It took about 20 minutes to boot but I'm OK with that because they advertise TS tools and I can't wait to recover some files I've been lacking for 6 mos. I'm still lacking.

I guess I was expecting a little much when I thought they'd provide tools for restoring my Win98 OS to pristine condition, but I don't believe I was expecting too much to at least be able to copy the files to my memory stick. I blindly plug it in and the light came on, the CD drive twirled and the screen flashed. Something new appeared. An icon identical to the hard drive appeared at the bottom.

After about 10 minutes of clicking around on it, I still can't find any of the files on my stick. I go up. I go down. Left. Right. I find a cryptic note in some FAQ or forum and start hunting in a directory that I believe was called mnt. After about 30 minutes of fooling around and searching web pages, I realize the new icon came in above not below the old one - alphabetically, I guess. I click on it and it's empty. I also note that I've been here in the previous search on the mnt. But still no files.

Then I remember some bizarre archaic process from my previous reading and put 2