Re: [tlug] mail recommendations

["A.Sajjad Zaidi" <sajjad@example.com>]

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On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 12:15:29PM +0900, Ryan Shaw wrote:
> Micheal E Cooper wrote:
> 
> > What are you using for e-mail on Linux?
> 
> Sylpheed. I've used VM and Mozilla Mail in the past, but was
> never very happy. I was *so* happy when I switched to Sylpheed.
> It is very fast, and Japanese support is excellent (as it should
> be, since it was written by a Japanese guy).

One reason I stopped using it was that sorting took very long and a lot
of cpu. Mozilla Mail on the other hand is very fast at that.

Another was that if I choose to 'leave messages on the server', I would
get multiple copies everytime I checked. This doesnt seem to bother most
people though so maybe its just me.

> Mails are stored individually on disk (rather then in those huge
> mail files), which is nice. 

Thats not necessarily good for everyone. It takes longer to
move/copy/tar 1000 files of 10MB total than just 1 10MB file. I agree
that it depends somewhat on the file system but there will still be a
slight difference.
 
> There are two versions, stable and cutting-edge (Sylpheed-claws).
> Sylpheed-claws has cool bells and whistles, including sophisticated
> filtering and context-specific account switching.
> 
> Ryan

I like the PGP support in that.

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A. Sajjad Zaidi
System Administrator
Technology & Operations Div.
Digital Garage Inc.

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