← Back to team overview

lubuntu-desktop team mailing list archive

Re: Proposal to use Claws Mail as default Email Client instead of Slypheed

 

If it really is just as "heavy" in use and others have suggested the same in
the past, why not?

With metta,

Chris Druif

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 13:23, WiZ <wiz.irc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Claws Mail (http://www.claws-mail.org/ formerly Sylpheed-Claws) started as
> the bleeding-edge
> version of Sylpheed, in order to act as a testbed for new features for
> Sylpheed. Claws Mail then evolved into the stable extended version of
> Sylpheed, and is now an entity in its own right, mainly due to
> different goals and the fact that syncing both codebases doesn't happen
> anymore.
>
> Claws Mail has many extra features compared to Sylpheed and is more
> powerful, yet is just as fast, lightweight and stable.
>
> Justification:
>
> Similar resource usage as Slypheed
> Extendable with a number of 1st and 3rd party plugins available now
> (Slypheed is also begining to develop support for plugins but Claws has
> mature support with plugins available now!)
> Plugins available with support for Calendar functions and syncing with
> webcal servers like google calendar (May be able to provide
> functionality that could allow removal of Osmo)
>
> WiZ
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop
> Post to     : lubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>

References