From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 19 20:22:48 2002 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 C72FA37B400 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 20:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3794D43E72 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 20:22:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yid@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 26303 invoked by uid 417); 20 Aug 2002 03:22:39 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 20 Aug 2002 03:22:39 -0000 Received: from unknown ([216.194.25.181]) (AUTH: LOGIN yid@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:22:37 -0600 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 23:25:49 -0400 From: Joshua Lee To: "Dan Langille" Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What mail client for a computer newbie? Message-Id: <20020819232549.7d5add10.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <3D617400.1294.5D259729@localhost> References: <3D617400.1294.5D259729@localhost> Organization: Plan B Software Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.1claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:41:04 -0400 "Dan Langille" wrote: > What mail client would you recommend for my mother? > > To be fair, she's been using pine under FreeBSD for about a year now. > Now that she's about to get a new computer, it's time to upgrade to a > GUI (we're going with KDE). Kmail will probably be already installed if you install KDE. (Note that an important component of KDE2, kdelibs2, has been marked forbidden because of a security exploit. For that reason and the fact that KMail and other parts of 3.x are better and KDE3's faster without major reliability problems I reccomend installing the latest KDE3.) I use Sylpheed (actualy the Claws cutting-edge branch), which is a simple GTK based mail reader. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message