From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 30 12:51:25 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 ECF9E16A407 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:51:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stb@lassitu.de) Received: from koef.zs64.net (koef.zs64.net [212.12.50.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4200C43D68 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:51:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stb@lassitu.de) Received: (from stb@koef.zs64.net) (authenticated) by koef.zs64.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k9UCp3tT094512 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:51:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stb@lassitu.de) In-Reply-To: <20061030093907.N52313@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> References: <20061029190309.47601863@soralx.cydem.org> <20061030093907.N52313@tribble.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <58AF7B53-FFC0-45B4-8859-E43420C75D95@lassitu.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Stefan Bethke Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:52:32 +0100 To: Jan Grant X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) 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 12:51:26 -0000 Am 30.10.2006 um 10:40 schrieb Jan Grant: > 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). Cyrus released it as free-as-in-beer recently, and has announced that he's trying to open source it as soon as he can get all necessary rights together. The Linux binary (used to) run just fine on 4 and 5. http://www.mulberrymail.com/ Stefan -- Stefan Bethke Fon +49 170 346 0140