Remove Acer Email

I'm thinking of removing the built-in email application.
I use Gmail and don't think I need the installed package.
But I don't know if there is any downside to doing this. Any ideas?
also, I think I can remove it with the Package Manager, is that right?

 

If you are worried set a system restore point before removing it and then remove it. I can't imagine it will do any harm to remove it. I have used both Revo Uninstaller (a portable version is available) and Your Uninstaller and found both very good at cleaning out unwanted apps and I have not noticed any side effects in XP.

Al

 

I'm guessing that he's using the Linpus version, not XP.

 

Correct.

Again:
I'm thinking of removing the built-in email application.
I use Gmail and don't think I need the installed package.
But I don't know if there is any downside to doing this. Any ideas?
also, I think I can remove it with the Package Manager, is that right?

 

You can indeed remove it with Package Manager - the package name appears to be "ame". Removing it shouldn't in theory break anything else - I can't see why anything should depend on the specific email package, and the Package Manager shouldn't remove any of ame's dependencies unless nothing else is using them - but as I haven't removed it myself I can't guarantee this. You might have to be the guinea pig and report back to the rest of us! Usual warnings: back up anything you can't manage without before doing this.

One thing you will need to do is set a new Preferred Application for email in xfce. To do this, use the right-click menu and go to Settings->Preferred Applications. The default email client is set from the front tab of that screen.

 

Good point. I have seen the mail reader option in preferred applications but I don't know what I need to enter there to make google gmail become my default email app.

Anyone have ideas?

 

I don't know any way of making a webmail client act in this way. You could install Thunderbird, point it to your gmail account using IMAP, and use that as a default client - that's how mine works.

 

Hi everybody, I have removed AME wtih the Package Manager and all work fine for me.
I've also installed Thunderbird as mail client and was automatically set as defauld client.

Mako'

 

I unpacked the latest thunderbird to /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.6
To get the latest thunderbird to find libraries, I created:
/etc/ld.so.conf.d/thunderbird-i386.conf
that contains:
/usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.6
rerun ldconfig