Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 01:10:01 -0400 From: "Troy Settle" <troy@picus.com> To: "Rahul Siddharthan" <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net> Cc: "FreeBSd Chat list" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Looking for X email client Message-ID: <FCEELIAEIIECDGKKJLMIAEFECAAA.troy@picus.com> In-Reply-To: <20000717070452.B19676@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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** ** Francisco Reyes said on Jul 16, 2000 at 21:24:24: ** > Any suggestions on an X email client? ** > I just tried "spruce" and it was horrible. Not only it crashed ** > continuously, it even froze the entire machine. The first time ** > in 5 years using FreeBSD that a program freezes the whole ** > machine. I could not even ssh in from another computer. ** ** Surely that has to be a bug in something other than spruce. A ** userland program run by an unprivileged user should not freeze the ** whole machine? Please tell us that you're not running X, and subsequently spruce, as root. ** ** As for X email clients, there seem to be several new ones under ** development. Of the stable ones, netscape's doesn't seem too bad: at ** least it doesn't chew up the message formatting the way most windows ** software do. I've used it only briefly, though. ** Evolution looks quite promising. There's a screenshot at http://www.gnome.org/images/screenshots/20000400-jacob-big. If it works half as good as it looks, I'm sure I'll be more than happy with it on my desktop. You can read about it at http://www.helixcode.com/apps/evolution.php3. It's up to a 3rd preview release, not sure how long until the developers consider it to be even of beta quality. I plan to install it as-is just as soon as I find the time to work my way through it (There's no port, and I've just recently installed X after nearly 5 years of working with FreeBSD and Linux. It'll prolly take me a while :) -Troy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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