Re: Lightweight Alternative to Mozilla-Firebird
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 12:31:17PM +1000 or thereabouts, Peter A. Cole wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 21:24:29 -0500
> "S.D.A." <dallan@rogers.com> wrote:
>
> > It's been some time since I last used Sylpheed, but one can set specific
> > reply-to behaviours for each mail directory. For a GUI client Sylpheed
> > isn't too bad -- Too bad it isn't a threaded client though. I disliked
> > the fact that one couldn't read mail, while it was initiating a
> > connection. Geez even Mozilla does that.
> >
> > --
> > Stephen
>
> Hi Stephen, when you say it isn't threaded, are you referring just to the fact that the messages in each thread aren't displayed together? If so, the default view in Sylpheed here is threaded. If you're referring to something different, then I'm not sure :-)
No it doesn't thread the processes. In other words one can't do anything
while one is downloading e-mail. The application is locked, until that
I/O finishes.
> And from what I can see so far, it should be able to check mail while I'm reading it as well, but I'll tell you after I've used it for a bit.
It didn't use to...
> And, by the way, this is the first message I've sent to the list using Sylpheed, so we'll see how it looks!
Give it a month or two to evaluate properly. One (in my view) can't
properly evaluate any application in a shorter period, unless some basic
feature is missing, than perhaps one can.
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