Quoting Hagibis Fan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > anybody has a suggestion on a good mail client that would be at least > as good as Outlook Express?
As David Meyer says, Ximian Evolution is about the closest thing around -- although I hear that it looks/feels more like MS-Outlook than MS-Outlook Express. But it's also huge and slow (by Linux mailer standards), so presumably isn't going to be your choice. Personally, I think the Balsa mailer is really excellent, and would use it if I wanted an X11-based MUA (mail user agent = mail client). It's fast, light, looks and acts generally like Eudora, is very full-featured, and uses a library version of the "mutt" MUA as its central engine. (I favour mutt, which is a leading console mailer.) The machine I try these things out on is a 4-year-old PII/266 Dell laptop with 128 MB total RAM. Other _really_ popular graphical MUAs are Aethera, Kmail, Mahogany, Mozilla Mail/News, Pronto, Spruce, and Sylpheed. I have a brief write-up of all 115 known MUAs for Linux here: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/muas.html > Oh , and it has to run on Motif (lesstif)-- gnome & kde dont cut it > anymore on my old laptop... A mailer can still be lightweight without using the lesstif (or Motif) graphics toolkit: There are many lightweight GTK+-based mailers, for example. A mailer that uses GTK+ or even sundry GNOME libraries doesn't need to run _under_ GNOME, just as one that uses Qt or even sundry KDE libraries needn't run under KDE. For example, Sylpheed is said to be really fast and light, being coded in C and using the GTK+ toolkit, and also is said to resemble MS-Outlook Express. But if you insist on a Motif-based mailer that clones MS-Outlook Express, there's one of those, too: Nexor Defender for Motif, http://www.nexor.com/client_products.asp#defm . But it's really exotic and rare (and proprietary). I have no idea how much a copy costs. Please have a look at my list. Some of the entries are specifically noted as having the reputation of being small, light, and fast. And then try a few -- starting with Sylpheed and Balsa. -- Cheers, "Cthulhu loves me, this I know; because the High Priests tell me so! Rick Moen He won't eat me, no, not yet. He's my Elder God, dank and wet!" [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
