pick a mail client for my wife

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

>My wife has been using sylpheed for over a year.
>

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>What should she try? It needs to be a friendly, point-and-click GUI
>interface. Hopefully lightweight without needs for KDE, QT3, nor GNOME
>libraries (but maybe that is not possible).
>
>Evolution?
>
>Thunderbird?
>
>  
>
I like Mozilla mail well enough.  If this bird flies
like Mozilla, it might work.  [But doesn't it require
glib, gtk, pango? ]

Possible drawbacks:

    * I'm experience what might be a bug, or at
       least bad config:  when certain users post
       to the lists (Oriental sounding names, generally)
       Mozilla mail hangs and then all of Mozilla exits.
       Does your wife correspond with anyone in China? ;-)

    * The spam filter is *excellent*.  But, as with all
       such bells/whistles, every once in a while it gets
       too smart, and deletes a message from someone
       whom I like, but who isn't too smart about what
        might get caught in a Baynesian filter (re: Hi,
        Kevin!!  How's the family!!!) etc.

If there are any other aggravations from this client,
they'll likely be no worse, on any count, than using
Lookout Expense.  I can't comment on it's compliance
with Greg Lehey's etiquette list, but it doesn't seem
to offend too badly....

My $.02,

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.