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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. -- Sent using Claws Mail - http://www.claws-mail.org/
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