[COLUG] Seeking recommendations for Linux distro for ancient laptop

[Rob Funk]

Duane wrote:
> The only big resource hog I am left using is Thunderbird, does anyone
> know of anything that works/looks/layout similar to thunderbird at all,
> but isn't a resource hog?

For power there's mutt, but of course that doesn't exactly fit the 
question.  Similar with Emacs-based Gnus or Rmail.

I think Kmail (my current choice) is smaller than Tbird, but I'm not sure 
how much weight the KDE libs add if you're not already running KDE.

Here's what the Grumpy Editor wrote on the topic a few years ago:
  http://lwn.net/Articles/91308/

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