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Hi,
I have been searching for a decent and lightweight Email client and have yet to have found one. If anyone can think of one that has a GTK GUI, that is known to be reliable and visually attractive. Just drop a line here telling me the name of it, and any experience you have with it.
Thanks in advance
Ash
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Claws Mail: http://www.claws-mail.org/
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I recently switched from Thunderbird to Claws Mail and I'm pretty pleased with it. Compared to Thunderbird, it does feel light-weight (I've got a two year old 2.0 GHz laptop, mileage may vary), and it hasn't crashed or done horrible things to my email yet. As for visual attrictiveness, it's a pretty standard gtk interface (although it doesn't carry over your icon settings so you'll have to find a theme to match). I don't have any particularly strenuous demands, but I both like and am slightly confused by the bewildering array of filtering and processing options. Even if you don't need it to open cat food tins before and after handling your email, it's nice to know it can It has no native spam handling capabilities but there are spam plugins - though spamassassin cannot exactly be called lightweight.
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+1 to Claws Mail from me too.
Last edited by zodmaner (2008-09-27 16:08:12)
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Thanks for all of the comments,
I have just installed Claws-Mail, and the Tango theme. It seems impressive so far, it seems a lot more straight forward then Thunderbird (i also do not need to recompile to get official icons ).
Thanks again
Ash
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Nothing beats Evolution. I'm sorry, all the others can try and fail miserably
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you asked for lightweight, yes you did, then: alpine!
if you accept a little more heavy +1 for claws-mail.
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I have just discovered Sylpheed today, and I'm liking it so far (I haven't tested Claws-mail yet, though).
Also, I'm moving this discussion to Workstation User.
Have you Syued today?
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Claws-mail would be fine but is terribly slow as an IMAP client. And since I am using gmail through IMAP nothing can beat mutt (perhaps alpine is not less fast, but I find it incredibly rigid and confusing).
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If only claws-mail would have a decent GUI to an addressbook. I can add a persons name and emailaddress, but all the rest is a pain to do manually.
I'm looking forward to thunderbird 3.0 with LDAP-write and the calendar integrated. This one will give evolution a good run for their money. Evolution is too sluggish for me, but unfortunately I cannot go without it since it's the only client with good iCal-support...
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I use thunderbird. I need the webmail plugins to get around the proxy at work that block pop...
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I use claws-mail, which is good, with the bogofilter anti-spam plugin (lighter than spamassassin). Maybe I'll try Alpine because I prefer console-based apps, but I don't see a feature I'd want that Claws hasn't.
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