- To: Dave Fitch <davidf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] Question about Email (what do u use?)
- From: luke@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu Sep 7 21:51:23 2000
- Cc: Sydney Linux Users Group <slug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On 7 Sep, Dave Fitch wrote:
> All the ones I've tried kmail, tkRat etc etc have either
> been too gui (ie. large, slow and unreliable) or not
> enough features. For ages now at home I've been using elm.
> And it's great but a gui one would be nice. I've even
> tried netscape (for a short while). The closest one for
> me was the linux copy of Sun's mailtool but I think that
> once crashed on me (I hate mail clients that are unreliable
> which is why I stick to mailtool on Suns not dtmail).
Postilion may fit the bill: it's a Nextstep-like GUI instead of the
tkRat one, on top of the TkRat engine. See http://www.postilion.org/
Only downside really is that getting jpeg etc. image support configured
properly (for embedded images) is fiddly to get working.
luke