From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 17 4: 7:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD4737B8C8 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 04:07:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA87047; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:06:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 07:06:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam To: Gianmarco Giovannelli Cc: Francisco Reyes , FreeBSd Chat list Subject: Re: Looking for X email client In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000717081816.029aef08@194.184.65.7> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: >At 16/07/2000, David Scheidt wrote: >>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. > >I have installed balsa (in the ports) and it is ok. A lot (too many?) >dependencies in the port but perhaps all necessary. If you install also >procmail you can easily filter message and organize them as you like... > >Btw I prefer to use mutt in a color xterm :-) > >I continue to think Eudora (that I use when I am under windog, like now) is >the best email program ever made, I don't understand why at Qualcomm they >are not planning at least a Linux version. Surely the linux box out are >more than the macs and they could reach also other OSes like *BSD under >linux emulation. Then again they put out qpopper for unix too and look at the holes, do you want a X email client with that many holes also? :)) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message