From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 30 09:40:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org 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 10F7516A40F for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:40:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jan.grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from diri.bris.ac.uk (diri.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 524E143D55 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:40:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jan.grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.16.62]) by diri.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GeTd6-0007DI-GL; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:40:31 +0000 Received: from cse-jg.cse.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.12.37]:59533) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1GeTcr-00009a-HC; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:40:13 +0000 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:40:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: soralx@cydem.org In-Reply-To: <20061029190309.47601863@soralx.cydem.org> Message-ID: <20061030093907.N52313@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> References: <20061029190309.47601863@soralx.cydem.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-ILRT-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ILRT-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.231, required 6, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44, AWL 0.21) X-ILRT-MailScanner-From: jan.grant@bristol.ac.uk X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -1.3 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GUI imap client X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:40:33 -0000 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.