Thursday, January 5, 2006

Moving my mail and Firefox Plugins

The decision as to which mail client you use is a matter of personal choice. Currently I use Mozilla Thunderbird with mail washer for mail at home and Lotus Notes for work. Under Linux there I have the opportunity to use a mail client with similar functionality to Notes. Evolution and Kontact both have similar environments, that integrate a mailtool, calendar and todo list. Since I am using Ubuntu which uses a Gnome desktop as default I have decided to stick with Evolution. I am told that it using spam assassin as a spam filter. I guess I will have to start the mail learning process from scratch.

I have also discovered that, the plugin installer within Firefox does not work for some of the more common plugins you would wish to load. By default, if a plugin is not available within Firefox, a hand icon is displayed. This links to a process to install the plugin. When I have tried this process with Java and RealPlayer 10 it has complted but the plugin is not loaded. I will need to do a little web scanning for some clues to this one.

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