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Re: Email client choice

 

On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:33:55 -0000, Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

Well, if we continue this way, we can remove all program except the
browser and become a Chrome OS

But for the email client, using only the web UI mean you have constantly
a good Internet connexion, you can't do anything offline.

Personally, I alway use a local client, I never find the web UI very
good to use daily.

Also, the gain to remove sylpheed is about 5Mo unpacked, so only a bit
less than 2Mo on the ISO.

About the choice sylpheed vs claws-mail, the 2 seems good. Memory usage
seems quite the same, main functionality are here, development seems
active (a bit more maybe on claws side). Main difference so far is the
multi-threading of sylpheed, mean you can close it when he's trying to
synchronize an IMAP folder. Regarding the popularity, Claws is more used
on Debian than sylpheed.

So +1 for both for me

I think sylpheed wins, just, because of the multi-threading. Both are equally slow at times, with large imap folders. Both win hands down over WEB interfaces which seem to me to be designed to put people off using email. For really light-weight mutt is the obvious one but, it takes a bit of twiddling to get just so and terrifies most new users.
So +1 for sylpheed and +0.9 for claws

--
Steve



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