Re: [TCLUG:22533] GUI mail client

[Adam Maloney <adamm@sihope.com>]

What about XFMail?  I used it for awhile, but it was kind of confusing, it
ended up eating my inbox one day.  

Adam Maloney
Systems Administrator
Sihope Communications

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Andy Zbikowski wrote:

> "Austad, Jay" wrote:
> > 
> > Try these:
> > http://www.muhri.net/pronto/
> Written in Perl? Crazy...
> 
> > http://zamolxe.csis.ul.ie/Magellan/index.php3  (outlook clone, not
> > completely stable yet, but probably the best)
> 
> Doesn't look too bad. Haven't tried it.
> 
> > http://althea.sourceforge.net
> 
> Avoid avoid avoid. At least until these guys figure out automake, configure,
> and the like. Their default makefile needs a bit of customization. 
> 
> > http://www.helixcode.com/apps/evolution.php3 (very unstable, but will be
> > cool)
> Oh but it's painful. Big bloated outlookish app. Not at all what I need or
> want. The camel libiary is still far from useful. 
> 
> Couple others you might want to look at are Spruce and Balsa. Spruce has
> definite posiblities. (I think one of the Evolution [maybe former]
> developers wrote it. The mail libiary is alot simpler than Evolutions and
> the client is quite stable and usable. IMAP support leaves a bit to be
> desired though.  Pretty good otherwise.
> 
> Balsa is ok, but there are definitly better mailers. Balsa uses libmutt.
> libmutt is on bad crack. Maybe someday I'll learn enough C to write my own
> client. By that time something that does everything I want will probally be
> out though. ;)
> 
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