On 11/15/2000 00:31, Shea Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
It is a perl client, but have you tried Pronto? It's uses perl::GTK bindings
for the UI and is quite fast. MySQL is used on the backend to store email,
or you can use CSV which is slow. Pronto is great, it has a small footprint
and is quite fast.
I'm doing a major article on GUI mail clients for Max. Linux, but the
article won't be out for a while.
You also don't mention for what UI you want, KDE or Gnome. You might try
Balsa (gnome) or Magellan (KDE).
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