From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 30 16:56:33 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 460D316A403 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:56:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sequethin@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7574543D64 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:56:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sequethin@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id o37so1199097nzf for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:56:31 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=eMpbnFDZm7SASdj8aTszkt29mlcxZDXfVe5W+z3s/0LtGRhJO7MK0r3iwD152kbCmvPV8myMOPJaysVEb6zbDZHqCvL8N5SbsklS2qBP3IgoQJYfJjYHVzMTBKn0WDE1KQrK0E53X9CyzUeskDLuHrSnl7W1hpR5LM4erTnsrB4= Received: by 10.35.80.20 with SMTP id h20mr6311455pyl; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:56:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.1.0.23? ( [204.107.76.237]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 38sm12800641nzk.2006.10.30.08.56.30; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:56:31 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <200610300943.27959.fcash@ocis.net> References: <20061029190309.47601863@soralx.cydem.org> <200610300943.27959.fcash@ocis.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <8681EEF3-64B5-438E-A538-771494F56755@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Michael Hernandez Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:56:32 -0500 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) 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 16:56:33 -0000 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