[ILUG] X11 Mail clients......

[Caolan McNamara]

On 22-Apr-99 Ronan Kirby wrote:
>Folks,
>
>Help me out here, this is really starting to piss me off :o(  Does a single
>descent mail client exist for X.  I've tried em all Arrow, Netscape etc etc
>etc.
>
>What I want is very simple....  A nice graphical client that will read in
>the mail, and due to the fact that I have sh1t loads of email addresses
>mapping to my main one, and am on a lot of lists, I want it to sort them
>into nice little folders for me. Mabey even there would be a way for it to
>show new mail is in a particular folder without having to check them all
>too. I refuse to use Netscape as the bloddy thing is a dog, and kills my
>computer when I leave it running.
>
>Does such a thing exist I ask you?

I use xfmail, its pretty nice. It filters my mail for me fairly easily without
having to descent to the depths of procmail. Looks sort of nice and doesnt give
me grief. It does use a silly graphical widget set though, but i like it. I was
thinking about trying out the gnome balsa thing, but i havnt bothered yet.

C.
 
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