Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:30:46 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: chat@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pick a mail client for my wife Message-ID: <200404161430.46372.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0404160731570.6619-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0404160731570.6619-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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