[Discuss] Claws Mail

[edwardp at mcom.com (edwardp at mcom.com)]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 15:39:07 -0400
Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:

> A bit back I mentioned that I hadn't had problems with Thunderbird.
> Well... I've started having problems.  It's minor stuff, really,
> mostly slowdowns due to the monolithic mbox-style local mail storage
> that Thunderbird uses.  Still, it has become a pain in the ass.
> 
> I've been looking at a bunch of different open source efforts.  It's
> rather unfortunate that the pickings for cross-platform MUAs are so
> slim.  The Macintosh options are exclusively for Macintosh.  The
> Windows and Unix options use GTK+ which is great but it doesn't work
> natively on Macintosh.
> 
> So, I'm going to be clever (for stupid values of "clever" :).  I'm
> giving Claws Mail a try.  I'm using the Gpg4win edition on Windows and
> I'll be trying the same edition on Mac using the Wineskin wrapper
> tool.  I like it.  It doesn't suffer from the feeping creaturism that
> has plagued Mozilla's projects.  And, importantly, it doesn't use mbox
> files.  Local copies of mail are stored in the MH format.

I switched to it from Thunderbird.  Works great.  Cannot /compose/ HTML
with it, but it can display HTML mail, when the GTKHTML2 Viewer plugin
is installed (via the claws-mail-extra-plugins package) and enabled.

Good Luck.

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