Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird?
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:47:03
Message-Id: CA+czFiDu+78gcs0HF_Ef7hjQ_B336y77Jnor9G57SyFERmufow@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] alternative to thunderbird? by Alan McKinnon
1 On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:28:44 -0800
3 > Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >
5 >> I just switched from firefox to chromium (thanks to you guys) and I'm
6 >> loving it.  What would you recommend for getting away from
7 >> thunderbird?  I'm looking for something simple and minimal.
8 >>
9 >> - Grant
10 >>
11 >
12 > claws-mail
13 >
14 > It takes some getting used to as all the nice
15 > cute gui stuff is not present. It sends and receives mail, does a very
16 > good job of filtering, is somewhat passable with rendering html mail
17 > (and absolutely refuses to generate it). Everything else that bloats
18 > mail clients is absent.
19 >
20 > It goes without saying that under no circumstances must you even
21 > consider using kdepim
22
23 Yeah, I should probably add a disclaimer: I haven't seriously used KDE
24 since before either KDE3 or GNOME 2 came out...
25
26 --
27 :wq