OT: Recommended news reader?

[Jp Calderone]

Mozilla Thunderbird has both nntp and imap. Have you tried it?

The IMAP support in Thunderbird is atrocious.

Jp

 

[Thomas Heller]

Mozilla Thunderbird has both nntp and imap. Have you tried it?

Yes, but it doesn't allow to configure the From: address depending on
the group I'm currently in - or did I miss this? That was the original question.

Thomas

 

[Nick Vargish]

The IMAP support in Thunderbird is atrocious.

Really? How so? I've been using it with a courier-imap server quite
happily. It also seems to talk to the Exchange server at work without
a complaint (nice not to have to use Outlook).

Nick

 

[Jp Calderone]

Really? How so? I've been using it with a courier-imap server quite
happily. It also seems to talk to the Exchange server at work without
a complaint (nice not to have to use Outlook).

Slow (unnecessarily so), half broken on certain empty mailboxes,
improperly handles newlines in certain cases, doesn't support IDLE (changes
to the mailbox won't be noticed until long after they are made in most
cases), plus a lot of other nasty annoyances that aren't directly visible to
users (tries to create mailboxes that already exist all the time, issues
many, many, many more LIST commands than it needs to, etc).

Jp

 

[Josiah Carlson]

Yes, but it doesn't allow to configure the From: address depending on
the group I'm currently in - or did I miss this? That was the original question.

Thomas

Not depending on the group.

There exists an email client for windows called Becky! internet email,
It has a newsgroup plugin (it is a bit unstable, which is why I use
Thunderbird for newsgroups), that allows you to have different defaults
per mail folder/newsgroup group.

- Josiah

 

[Terry Carroll]

But I was very astonished to see that no other mail/news client I have
examined allows customizing the From: address depending on the folder or
group you are currently in.

Forte's Agent allows this; I dunno about Free Agent.

 

[Sean Legassick]

But I was very astonished to see that no other mail/news client I have
examined allows customizing the From: address depending on the folder or
group you are currently in. Can that really be true?

Turnpike does <http://www.demon.net/turnpike/>. It costs about UKP15 and
there's no eval version, which is terrible marketing on Demon's behalf.
It's a wonderful email and news client with all kinds of great features
(ok, I was responsible for redesigning the UI during my time at Demon so
I'm somewhat biased...)

 

[Thomas Heller]

Turnpike does <http://www.demon.net/turnpike/>. It costs about UKP15
and there's no eval version, which is terrible marketing on Demon's
behalf. It's a wonderful email and news client with all kinds of great
features (ok, I was responsible for redesigning the UI during my time
at Demon so I'm somewhat biased...)

Thanks. Maybe I'll try it out some time.
Although Mozilla Thunderbird now also seems to support multiple
identities.

Thomas