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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: KMail Wishlist
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date:       2000-08-11 7:01:06
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On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Andreas Gungl wrote:
[...]
> If somebody wants to have auto-dial, he may install/configure it. He
> also may use sendmail configured in a way to send messages only after a
> special command in ip-up. He may use fetchmail in a similar way.
>
> All these features have nothing to do with a mail client. Think about
> KISS.
>
> And: In the last years I learned to accept Win* as a system which has to
> be used in several branches. (E.G. high quality financial accounting
> software for PC in Germany is available almost only for Win32 GUI.)
> I personally prefer Linux. Sure, we should copy good aspects of other
> systems. But the one-application-does-everything-itself on Win* is
> definitely not a good one.

100% agreed.

IMO it's not only about dialing. Many feature requests fall into this
category.

However, a nice tools menu would not hurt. Then users could add
menu entries with whatever command they like.

--Stefan

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