Shea Martin wrote:
>
> I am in the market for a new GUI email client. I think I have exhausted
> the sources of freshmeat. Just in case I missed one, and you are using
> it...
>
> Here is what I am looking for. (* = optional)
> 1. Adress Book - must not be too fancy. Name and email is enough for
> this cat.
> 2. Filtering - need not be fancy, but does need to work (unlike some
> progies)
> 3. Threading - sending and recieving mail in the background. I hate
> when my mail program is rendered useless untill it is done sending, or
> checkig.
> 4. Small Footprint - I have been checking out the memory consumption of
> all the programs I have been testing. According to ktop, Kmail uses
> about 8.3MB, while Spruce uses 4.2MB, and tkMail 3.1MB I think 5MB
> should be a maximum.
> 5. Multiple POP3 accounts and SMTP.
> 6. *Spellcheck - why not make use of Ispell, most systems have it
> installed?
> 7. *Multiple identites - allow you to have default sigs, send and
> recieve accounts based on identity.
> 8. No extra bloat - no calenders, prefer no news*, no faxing, etc.
> 9. No Java or Perl - I have tried 2 java based and 2 perl based mail
> clients. both took ages to fire up, and were generally slow.
>
> If I had the time and the skills I would take matters into my own hands.
> But I am still an amatuer programmer, with limited time.
>
> Anyone know of a command line method to measure the footprint of a
> program? ktop is a bit bulky for the task.
>
> For anyone interested in the results of my findings, the results may be
> appear in a Linux.com article. I will post when they are available. As
> for know, please let me know of any 'hidden pearl' X-email clients.
>
> ps- in case you are curious, I have been using Bynari's TradeClient for
> a month now. I will probably continue to after seeing the other stuff
> out there (unless you guys come thru 4 me). It is all right, but
> filters are iffy, abook is a HUGE overkill, and it has a Calender which
> will never get used.
>
> Shea Martin
> ~~~~~~~~~~~
WELL ,Except for the memory requirements you've just described
NetscapeMail. :-)
On a more serious note tough I don't think there is such a reliable
beast out there .You may want to try FreeAgent under wine .I've heard
good
things about it-I don't like it so I can't say how well does it work.
Other then that....I'm in the same boat ..loking for something that
will
resemble netscape mail without beeing netscape mail.:-)
I still think somebody should write just a GUI frontend to one of the
classic mail programs loke mutt or pine.
--
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Alan Saporta
My waste of cyberspace=
http://deepblue.dyndns.org :-)
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