Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:21:31 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai "IOnut" Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org> To: <soralx@cydem.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GUI imap client Message-ID: <20061030082131.39160bbb@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <20061029190309.47601863@soralx.cydem.org> References: <20061029190309.47601863@soralx.cydem.org>
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--Sig_MkhqU92RZvKab6l16GwgMQe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:03:09 -0800 <soralx@cydem.org> wrote: >=20 > can anyone kindly recommend a decent GUI imap client? I used KMail for > quite a while and didn't complain, but decided to move away from it > (slow, stores message flags in some weird way usable only to itself, > fancy, requires KDE, etc). So I tried sylpheed-claws (I often heard > compliments in it's address, since the times of stuphead). Well, it > turned out to be an ugly one: has a nasty habit of coredumping a dozen > times per day,=20 Have you sent backtraces to the port maintainer and/or upstream ? I don't remember any PRs about s.-c. lately. > never saves any preferences, completely untunable Examples ? > (hell, I can't even change the vertical dimension of so-called > 'Folder' list -- what a waste of space!), just riddled with bugs. Not What exactly means 'vertical dimension' ? > very usable :( Is there a kind of compromise between KMail and > sylpheed? (or something original wouldn't hurt either ;) Strange that I don't see any of the problem you mention; I'm using sylpheed-claws for about 29 configured email accounts, 2 of which are IMAP one being my FreeBSD list subscription with 153 folders. sylpheed-claws --status-full: new: 240 unread: 290335 total: 950215 The only problem I have is that a Draft message written in s.-c. when accessed in sqirrel webmail doesn't have the To: and Subject: lines and vice-versa. An other thing which I would like would be to fetch only attachments names and sizes when one opens a email and fetch the attachment only when you open it (I saw this in Eudora and like it very much). --=20 IOnut - Un^d^dregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" "Intellectual Property" is nowhere near as valuable as "Intellect" To live is always desirable. -- Eleen the Capellan, "Friday's Child", stardate --Sig_MkhqU92RZvKab6l16GwgMQe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFRZnrBX6fi0k6KXsRAp87AJwPtWOlr31nZmqX51zV6VtdIldLKQCeK8aD AGaiosBvwJl0O7lZZ5v8g7U= =rPBg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_MkhqU92RZvKab6l16GwgMQe--
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