From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 16 22:10:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from durango.picus.com (durango.picus.com [209.100.20.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F4E137BAAE for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:10:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from troy@picus.com) Received: from abyss [209.100.22.250] by durango.picus.com (SMTPD32-5.05) id A4A5204015E; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 01:07:49 -0400 From: "Troy Settle" To: "Rahul Siddharthan" , "Francisco Reyes" Cc: "FreeBSd Chat list" Subject: RE: Looking for X email client Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 01:10:01 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 In-Reply-To: <20000717070452.B19676@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ** ** 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