Re: Mail clients (and text editors)
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:38:37PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> I was using RedHat 7.2 for a while and I actually liked the KDE setup,
> although a bit heavy weight. But I also like how light-weight of a setup I
> now have with Debian. (I suppose I'll need a desktop environment at some
> point.)
The Ice Window Manager is about as lightweight as they come.
> Evolution:
Still very buggy. Would suit people who actually like Ouchlook Express.
> Mahogany:
No idea.
> Aethera:
No idea.
> Balsa:
Very basic but does its limited functions well.
> Sylpheed: (which I just read about on this list).
Quite nice. Used and discarded.
Have a look at TKmail (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~raines/tkmail.html)
and KMail.
Star Office has its own mail program as well.
> Also, on my home machines (I think) I'd like to switch to IMAP to make
> managing mail from different locations a bit better. I know very little
> about IMAP. Currently I think I've got about 50,000 messages in my Eudora
> folders, so I'm not clear if IMAP will be slow working with that many
> messages.
I used to love GUI mail programs but after using Mutt for about five
months, I wouldn't dream of going back.
Sam
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