[COLUG] Lightweight Thunderbird Replacement

Duane duane at e164.org
Fri Mar 30 08:33:46 EST 2007


Jim wrote:
> Duane wrote: 
> 
>> Lowery, Jerry wrote:
>>>  Not exactly the same but fairly light weight: 
>>>
>>> http://www.claws-mail.org/
>> I've tried this in the past, and I tried it again today (to see if
>> problems others and myself have had with it have since been addressed)
>> but while it's light weight it's not very mature and the usability and
>> stability of the application is some what lacking compared to thunderbird.
> 
> Claws is the immature bleeding edge fork of Sylpheed. 
> Sylpheed is mature and stable. I expect that Sylpheed lacks whatever 
> "usability" you've grown accustomed to with superchicken. 

It's a chicken and egg problem :)

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