From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 30 03:09:25 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 47E5E16A47E for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:09:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA0E943D6B for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:09:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id o37so1031987nzf for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:09:24 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=S+oNAJMZMMQ7gWkUF1CVUrL5t+3Zm0hvbO/iFOMKGgKFHSbpggbO9ZWo+NJRQYN7HVn0O2zIWg7pGXDJRIcRdvWu/lDFbWSOtoGmeRXZmyhH7YmYBY9n5MaH6h2R4vIFxAndlA2oqvYFpgkwd9C0MFhiQWhFneav92qnriLFuKA= Received: by 10.35.94.7 with SMTP id w7mr5170652pyl; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:09:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.130.17 with HTTP; Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:09:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <57d710000610291909q6cec1443v48425611ad2055dc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:09:23 -0800 From: "pete wright" To: "soralx@cydem.org" In-Reply-To: <20061029190309.47601863@soralx.cydem.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061029190309.47601863@soralx.cydem.org> 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 03:09:25 -0000 On 10/29/06, 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 ;) > i humbly suggest: mutt seamonkey squirellmail in that order... -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group