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RE: [LUG] Mail clients.



On 08-Jun-00 at 21:53:21 Alex Charrett wrote:
> Anyway - what do you use?
> 
At work I use XFMail. Have done for the past couple of years - its very
good, but aged now. Surprisingly quite a few people have had problems with
it crashing - never happens to me :-)

We (me and the postmasters) shall be looking to change to a new client during
the summer hopefully. Mahogany is currently a possibility -
http://www.wxwindows.org/Mahogany and I am looking at this at home. It is,
unfortunately, still somehat under development. Got a goodish review in
LinuxFormat though :-) Allegedly will work under Windows too...so it may be a
possibility for those who don't like Outlook :-)

We have looked at several clients, but this seems to be closest to what we
want - others were XCMail, spruce, arrow, balsa, xemh, postilion,
eucalyptus, cscmail, kmail...

Now, however, XFMail is being developed again - http://xfmail.slappy.org/
 - and will become the Archimedes project. So that threw a spanner in the
works!

For a command line client I would have gone for mutt - it seems to have good
threading and I receive a lot of mail : -)

At the end of the day there seem to be a lot of clients being developed -
okay so I'm talking x clients here - and they all have good features. which
one is used will depend on what you want from the client, and in our case it
will be which one gets developed first (cruel I know) and ultimitely which
one the linux community seems to like, since I doubt they will all survive -
XFMail didn't but was rated as one of the best a while ago.

I rarely read network news, but have an old knews client
http://www.matematik.su.se/~kjj/knews.html. I gather Mahogany will read
news so I'll see how that goes.

John.

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