Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:56:32 -0500 From: Michael Hernandez <sequethin@gmail.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GUI imap client Message-ID: <8681EEF3-64B5-438E-A538-771494F56755@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200610300943.27959.fcash@ocis.net> References: <20061029190309.47601863@soralx.cydem.org> <200610300943.27959.fcash@ocis.net>
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On Oct 30, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Sunday 29 October 2006 07:03 pm, 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). > > The "requires KDE" I can understand being a bad thing for some people. > The rest, though, I find very strange. I've been using KMail since > KDE > 3.0, and Kontact since it was released, without any issues. I have > over > 50 folders (with sub-folders) holding 1.5 GB of messages, with some > folders having over 20,000 messages. Never had a problem with > slowness > (except the period where the IMAP server was running Courier IMAP, > switching it to Cyrus sped things up a lot). > > As for non-KMail IMAP clients, the ones I know and have used: > - evolution (horrid thing, too much like Outlook) > - thunderbird (nice, cross-platform) > > Personnally, I'd recommend sticking with KMail, but I'm a KDE- > whore. :) Thunderbird is nice, you may also want to check out Sylpheed http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/features.html Mike H
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