TriNetre - Archive for October 21, 2003
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October 21, 2003
Hunt for a good email client
[Software]
@ 06:00 PM
I am hunting for a good email client, something that I should have done a long time ago. The background story is thus. I do not have a laptop. Hence, I wanted to be able to check my email from any machines that I could lay my hands on. So, I used to keep the emails on the server itself. However, over time, this had become tedious for several reasons. The space used up on the server is one, so is the troubles associated with backups, given the sorry state of my hosting provider's reliability.
What I need is a Windows 2K/XP based free (as in beer) email client that is reliable, able to support multiple users (not account, but multiple users), non-Outlook, non-Eudora and fast. So far my search has lead to:
- Mozilla Thunderbird - cons: no support for multiple users, too geeky (too many things done too manually, all chances of something going wrong when I need to upgrade).
- Pegasus Mail - pros: have multiple users (no password protected access though) support. cons: only problem with Pegasus mail for my setup as of now is due to some crap problem with my mail POP server. If I choose to leave the emails on the server, the next time I ask Pegasus to fetch the new emails, it ends up fetching all the emails on the server, including the already fetched emails, and not just the new one. This has been a recurring problem I have had with my email server, even when I tried to use Sendmail for my client on my Linux box.
- Sylpheed/Claws - cons: no support for multiple users. pros: great things is that with sylpheed-claw is that it does not (surprisingly) suffer from the problem I have experienced with Pegasus client that I mentioned above
[Update]: Issue with Pegasus solved. "File -> Network Configurations ->Receiving (POP3) ->Edit -> Download Controls -> Download only unread emails". This works as I wanted as long as the client is run from only one machine, which is fine by me. Great!
Economist on boom in Indian mobile market
[India]
@ 08:59 AM
The Economist covers the boom in Indian mobile market:
Some 5m new users have signed up since March; there are now over 17m subscribers. Add to this around 3.5m subscribers to a "limited" mobile service provided by fixed-line operators that works within a restricted area, usually a large city, and the total is even more impressive. What is driving this spectacular growth? Affordability. Limited mobile providers, authorised to begin operations early this year, cross-subsidise mobile from their fixed-line services. This has led to such fierce price competition that Indian mobile telephony is now the cheapest in the world.
