Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:54:19 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlist2@HotPOP.com> To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pick a mail client for my wife Message-ID: <20040416105419.7da04c14@vixen42.> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0404160731570.6619-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0404160731570.6619-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:37:54 -0700 (PDT) "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> 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.
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