Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:40:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <jan.grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: soralx@cydem.org Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GUI imap client Message-ID: <20061030093907.N52313@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20061029190309.47601863@soralx.cydem.org> References: <20061029190309.47601863@soralx.cydem.org>
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On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, soralx@cydem.org wrote: > 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, never saves any preferences, completely untunable (hell, > I can't even change the vertical dimension of so-called 'Folder' list > -- what a waste of space!), just riddled with bugs. Not very usable :( > Is there a kind of compromise between KMail and sylpheed? (or something > original wouldn't hurt either ;) For some values of "decent", there's mulberry. It's been through some rough times recently though and its status is somewhat uncertain. Mulberry also has a flavour some find not to their linking (that is, it's pig-ugly). -- jan grant, ISYS, University of Bristol. http://www.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Spreadsheet through network. Oh yeah.
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