From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 16 07:37:58 2004 Return-Path: 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 E740816A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:37:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [209.166.74.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 948E343D1D for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:37:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reed@reedmedia.net) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1BEUTa-0007aa-00; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:37:54 -0700 Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 07:37:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: pick a mail client for my wife X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:37:59 -0000 My wife has been using sylpheed for over a year. She has used various versions of sylpheed and sylpheed claws. She does not like it. It continually reflags her read emails as unread (bold again). It does not display attached images. Setting up a mailcap is not known to her. It is now slow to retrieve emails. (It retrieves fine but then redraws the top list numerous times as it indexes(?) the new emails.) What should she try? It needs to be a friendly, point-and-click GUI interface. Hopefully lightweight without needs for KDE, QT3, nor GNOME libraries (but maybe that is not possible). Evolution? Thunderbird? Kmail? (Maybe not enough features?) Balsa/Balsa2? She has many emails in MH format (to convert if needed). Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/