Im asking for advice about mail clients for Linux. I used to use pine, but I think Ive outgrown it now. In the last week Ive tried the following two options. Im not happy with either, and Ill give the reasons why.
* Balsa - not very robust, error-prone - not multi-threaded - locks up when checking / sending mail - doesnt expunge messages until you close Balsa - weird glitches w/ flagging and read/unread status - not alot of bells and whistles I would like (searching, etc.) - positive is that its mailbox structure and organization is very simple
* KMail - i didnt like the mbox organization where there are all these weird .file directories and structures that are very difficult to navigate from a shell - im not a kde (gnome all the way!) guy and keeping up with new releases of kde / kmail would be a pain
Basically I am looking for a simple, fast, graphical browser with decent bells and whistles but still stores mail in mbox format with easy to navigate (from the shell) folder structures.
Any advice from out there? (please cc me directly also as sometimes it is a while before i read the messages that come to me in digest form)
-- Tapan
On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 03:41, Tapan S . Parikh wrote:
Basically I am looking for a simple, fast, graphical browser with decent bells and whistles but still stores mail in mbox format with easy to navigate (from the shell) folder structures.
Evolution has all the things you are asking for, except that it takes a lot of time for startup on my 300 mhz P2. It has good configurable filters, calender etc etc (which many of us may not use). One thing I didn't like about it is that the way to:, Cc etc are handled is still a bit crude. I was unable to change the Cc button to Bcc button easily. Aside from all these, it is evolving and is already a mature reader. Recommended!
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Tapan S . Parikh