Dragaera

E-Mail Clients (was: Mac & "PC" Zealots)

Steve Simmons scs at di.org
Sun Feb 15 08:13:35 PST 2004

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 04:27:08PM -0600, Iain E. Davis wrote:

> Do you know of a website that compares various e-mail programs and 
> features? Particularly whether the client supports "this RFC" and "that 
> RFC" ? Such a site would be helpful in selecting a e-mail client.

I went digging for one, and came up empty.  This surprises me, because
there are all kinds of review sites for this, that, and the other.

What we really want is something like the "Good NetKeeping Seal of
Approval", a.k.a GNKSA.  It was designed for USENET news readers, and
for a while was pretty influential.  An equivelent for mail user agents
would be very useful.

No, I already have enough projects on my plate.  :-)

Brief technodweebing: "Mail user agent" (MUA) is the proper term for a
tool you (the user) read and send mail with.  This distinguishes it from
something that transports mail from place to place, called the Mail
Transport Agent (MTA).
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