From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 16 11:30:44 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 5375116A4D0 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:30:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 004D943D62 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:30:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 6447 invoked from network); 16 Apr 2004 18:30:41 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 16 Apr 2004 18:30:41 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.205 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3GIUcf0002151; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:30:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: chat@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:30:46 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404161430.46372.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 18:30:44 -0000 On Friday 16 April 2004 10:37 am, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > 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). My wife uses kmail and is fairly happy with it, but then again, I also have all of kde3 installed on the box we use for a desktop at home. I actually run a Cyrus server though, so we use kmail over IMAP, but I imagine if it can handle IMAP sanely, it should do very well for local mailboxes + POP3, etc. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org