pick a mail client for my wife

[John Baldwin]

On Friday 16 April 2004 10:37 am, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> My wife has been using sylpheed for over a year. She has used various
> versions of sylpheed and sylpheed claws.
>
> She does not like it. It continually reflags her read emails as unread
> (bold again).
>
> It does not display attached images. Setting up a mailcap is not known to
> her.
>
> It is now slow to retrieve emails. (It retrieves fine but then redraws the
> top list numerous times as it indexes(?) the new emails.)
>
> 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).

My wife uses kmail and is fairly happy with it, but then again, I also have 
all of kde3 installed on the box we use for a desktop at home.  I actually 
run a Cyrus server though, so we use kmail over IMAP, but I imagine if it can 
handle IMAP sanely, it should do very well for local mailboxes + POP3, etc.

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