GUI imap client

[Jan Grant]

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, soralx at cydem.org wrote:

> can anyone kindly recommend a decent GUI imap client? I used KMail for
> quite a while and didn't complain, but decided to move away from it
> (slow, stores message flags in some weird way usable only to itself,
> fancy, requires KDE, etc). So I tried sylpheed-claws (I often heard
> compliments in it's address, since the times of stuphead). Well, it
> turned out to be an ugly one: has a nasty habit of coredumping a dozen
> times per day, never saves any preferences, completely untunable (hell,
> I can't even change the vertical dimension of so-called 'Folder' list
> -- what a waste of space!), just riddled with bugs. Not very usable :(
> Is there a kind of compromise between KMail and sylpheed? (or something
> original wouldn't hurt either ;)

For some values of "decent", there's mulberry. It's been through some 
rough times recently though and its status is somewhat uncertain. 
Mulberry also has a flavour some find not to their linking (that is, 
it's pig-ugly).

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