On Thursday 25 April 2002 16.15, Ralf Nolden wrote:

> I still doubt it's the most-useful application though or I'm just missing
> the point of it's usage because I can't seem to be able to see the sense
> (ok, I know a unix system has it's internal mail system, but the default
> for system messages is sending to root, not the default user that one is
> working under). So, it may make sense on a network but not on a single-user
> desktop system I suppose....(unless the distro/system sends all messages of
> the system to the user).

Most people don't get as much mail as we do on these lists.  My daughter for 
example, doesn't have a super well powered computer, and she doesn't want to 
have kmail running all the time, when she only gets one or two mails a day 
(and that's a busy day.)

I set her up with Korn, and she knows right away if she should open up kmail 
and read her latest top secret message from the friend she just spent all day 
at school with :)

Actually, the last three out of four people I've hand-held through a first 
install of KDE, the first thing they specifically asked after exploring the 
desktop a while was "Does KDE have a mail monitor thingy?"  Luckily, we do.  
It does point out that it may be badly placed in the menus - usually these 
people had found kmail, editors, the web browser, but didn't find Korn on 
their own.

Cheers
-- 
Lauri





