From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 16 23:44: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23F2037B782 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 23:43:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 29389 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2000 06:43:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory3.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (qmailr@144.16.71.158) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 17 Jul 2000 06:43:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 11573 invoked by uid 211); 17 Jul 2000 06:43:38 -0000 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:13:38 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: David Scheidt Cc: Francisco Reyes , FreeBSd Chat list Subject: Re: Looking for X email client Message-ID: <20000717121338.B11465@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <200007170123.VAA16169@vulcan.addy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from dscheidt@enteract.com on Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 10:31:25PM -0500 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.0-test3 i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Scheidt said on Jul 16, 2000 at 22:31:25: > On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > :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. > > > What's wrong with a terminal based one? You can do xterm -e foo so you can > launch it from a menu or a desktop icon if you feel the need. That's what I do too. You can set up helpers for various attachments. And if you run it in a terminal like rxvt with suitable resource settings, and it beeps for new mail (like pine does and mutt can be made to do), it automatically de-iconifies -- which is rather nice. The other "in development" ones which I was referring to were balsa, evolution (already mentioned), kmail (actually this is supposed to be stable, but I don't know) and magellan. I've read good things about xfmail too. I've never used any of these, so I have absolutely no opinion. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message