From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 16 10:56:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00A8516A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:56:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cableone.net (scanmail2.cableone.net [24.116.0.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E4643D45 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:56:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kitbsdlist2@HotPOP.com) Received: from vixen42. (unverified [24.119.123.61]) by smail2.cableone.net (SurgeMail 1.5d2) with ESMTP id 2929770 for multiple; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:46:05 -0700 Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:54:19 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox To: "Jeremy C. Reed" Message-Id: <20040416105419.7da04c14@vixen42.> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pick a mail client for my wife X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:56:49 -0000 On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:37:54 -0700 (PDT) "Jeremy C. Reed" wrote: > My wife has been using sylpheed for over a year. She has used > various versions of sylpheed and sylpheed claws. > > She does not like it. It continually reflags her read emails as > unread(bold again). > > It does not display attached images. Setting up a mailcap is not > known to her. > > It is now slow to retrieve emails. (It retrieves fine but then > redraws the top list numerous times as it indexes(?) the new > emails.) > > What should she try? It needs to be a friendly, point-and-click GUI > interface. Hopefully lightweight without needs for KDE, QT3, nor > GNOME libraries (but maybe that is not possible). > > Evolution? > > Thunderbird? > > Kmail? (Maybe not enough features?) > > Balsa/Balsa2? Sylpheed-claws is a possibility. BTW is the program exiting abnormally or something? I've only seen messages marked as new when it exits abnormally and has not had a chance to make some changes to a file. It can also display images and html email too, if you want. I think this is also possible in sylpheed to. It works by a plugin.