I've used yarn for quite some time under DOS. There are features in
yarn that I've not been able to find in any Windows email client.
Among these are the following which I miss most:
1. I've not been able to find a Windows client which will reply
appropriately to emails received from a mailing list. Specifically
they all automatically reply to the Reply-to: field when one exists,
rather than providing the opportunity to choose between that and the
From: or Sender field.
2. I've not found any Windows client which integrates mail and news
as well as yarn does. Being able to filter mail from a mailing list
into a pseudonewsgroup seems to be unique to yarn and probably the
feature I miss most.
3. Not yarn perhaps, but the signature handling of yes is also a
feature I'd really like to have in my Windows email client.
I know that I'm going to be told that I can run yarn in a DOS box
under Windows, but this is not the same thing. For one thing, I
cannot use a Windows editor or the Windows clipboard. And, I cannot
use standard Windows editting functions.
Also, having to deal with the intermediate step of soup packets is a
drawback and inconvenience. Connecting to pop/smtp under Windows
would be ever so much better. In fact, it is the lack of this ability
that has caused me to convert to another email client.
Then, there's the matter of speech. I want to be able to use my
Windows screen access, but it's simply inadequate in a DOS box.
Having to bring in my DOS screen reader brings with it another set of
problems and inconveniences.
But, I gather from comments on the list that none of us desiring ports
of yarn are likely to have our wishes granted. How unfortunate...
"War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left."
Regards
Jeff <counselor@geocities.com> - ICQ UIN: 736807
Computer and Internet Accessibility Consultant
Blind Man's Bluff: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Bluffs/8545/