Re: Mail clients (and text editors)
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:41:54 -0800
moseley@bumby.hank.org wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 09:33:55AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> >
> > Sylpheed is quite nice. I don't use it myself because I don't want to be
> > dependent on an X app to read my mail (I use mutt), but my wife switched
> > to Sylpheed after we decided that Outlook Express was too dangerous, and
> > she's quite happy with it.
>
> Is there a debian package for Sylpheed?
Yes. And in two flavours. Sylpheed, the vanilla version, and
Sylpheed-claws, the strawberry bleeding-edge version, which is actually
stable enough for my none-too-demanding needs.
> BTW -- why would using an X mail application exclude you from also running mutt?
No, it won't. But it does pose a problem if you suddenly misconfigured
X. As a fall-back I began learning mutt ;-). You can run Sylpheed
alongside with mutt if you use the MH format for your mailbox. You can
even use Sylpheed as a popclient and mailfilter for mutt. The only
problem I've had is with rereading mail. Mail marked as read in mutt
doesn't appear as read in Sylpheed.
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