I am in the market for a new GUI email client. I think I have exhausted
the sources of freshmeat. Just in case I missed one, and you are using
it...
Here is what I am looking for. (* = optional)
1. Adress Book - must not be too fancy. Name and email is enough for
this cat.
2. Filtering - need not be fancy, but does need to work (unlike some
progies)
3. Threading - sending and recieving mail in the background. I hate
when my mail program is rendered useless untill it is done sending, or
checkig.
4. Small Footprint - I have been checking out the memory consumption of
all the programs I have been testing. According to ktop, Kmail uses
about 8.3MB, while Spruce uses 4.2MB, and tkMail 3.1MB I think 5MB
should be a maximum.
5. Multiple POP3 accounts and SMTP.
6. *Spellcheck - why not make use of Ispell, most systems have it
installed?
7. *Multiple identites - allow you to have default sigs, send and
recieve accounts based on identity.
8. No extra bloat - no calenders, prefer no news*, no faxing, etc.
9. No Java or Perl - I have tried 2 java based and 2 perl based mail
clients. both took ages to fire up, and were generally slow.
If I had the time and the skills I would take matters into my own hands.
But I am still an amatuer programmer, with limited time.
Anyone know of a command line method to measure the footprint of a
program? ktop is a bit bulky for the task.
For anyone interested in the results of my findings, the results may be
appear in a Linux.com article. I will post when they are available. As
for know, please let me know of any 'hidden pearl' X-email clients.
ps- in case you are curious, I have been using Bynari's TradeClient for
a month now. I will probably continue to after seeing the other stuff
out there (unless you guys come thru 4 me). It is all right, but
filters are iffy, abook is a HUGE overkill, and it has a Calender which
will never get used.
Shea Martin
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Duke of Silton
&
Earl of S'toon
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