liquidzoo Posted August 14, 2003 Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 Right now I'm using Sylpheed. I like it. Very fast, small program but it doesn't have everything I would like. Specifically I am looking for html mail support because I have several newsletters that come in html format and I want to be able to view them from my mail reader. I do, however, have some limitations: I would prefer not to use mozilla mail. Evolution and kmail are far too big for me. I'm looking for something that is light and fast, maybe something that is not so well known but someone uses and likes a lot. So, what do you think? Any recommendations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted August 14, 2003 Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 My vote goes to mutt, a fast, light and powerfull mail user agent. Can use vim as the editor which increases even more it's power. To view html messages just instruct it to open your preferred browser through ~/.mailcap, ie: text/html; opera -remote 'openURL(%s,new-page)' The only problem you might find on it is that it's a text tool ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted August 14, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 I will keep that one in mind, but I was hoping for a GUI option. I am familar with some text based email clients. I have used pine to connect to 2 different school accounts over the last few years (and still do through a telnet session) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted August 14, 2003 Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 Re hotmail support- search the forum. I recall an add on program being discussed for either kmail or evolution which will give hotmail support. Neither of them have it on their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 14, 2003 Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 gui?....not kmail or evo? :? I d/k, how's sylpheed-claws coming along? It's been a long time since I tried it. Balsa claims very little html support :roll: but don't bother. All you get is clickable links :roll: . I used mutt, telling it to use dillo for viewing html, and it worked great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shen Posted August 14, 2003 Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/ Give Thunderbird a look. Not sure it will be what you want but it is small and lite.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schussat Posted August 14, 2003 Report Share Posted August 14, 2003 I use evolution now on my home desktop, but that's primarily because I got a palm pilot and wanted some integrated calendaring, etc. Previously, I used and really liked Pronto. I'd give it a look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted August 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2003 Ok, here's some things I have found: [*]mulberry [*]arrow Those are just a few that looked interesting to me and looked like they would do what I want. Anyone tried any of them? How are they? I did try Pronto, but couldn't get it to load on my system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 15, 2003 Report Share Posted August 15, 2003 What browser do you use? Opera's M2 is nice, and it's nice to have it all in one window/diff tabs. http://www.opera.com/products/user/m2/ LiquidZoo, so you don't need images, just html/text, rt? Balsa's not bad in that regard, and it is very light/fast. I'll have to give apt-get install pronto a shot but there's some deps to download so I'll do that later, and build an rpm pkg. If it works on my ML9.1, I'll let you know, and can send it your way or put it on the server. I downloaded Thunderbird earlier and it's great!...so far. (thanks shen! I forgot about thunderbird because when I heard of it I was using mozilla-everything, but now I use mozilla-firebird) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 15, 2003 Report Share Posted August 15, 2003 Are you sure you want pronto? It's still gtk1.2 :roll: :? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted August 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2003 I use MozillaFirebird as my browser. I love the tabbed browsing option, don't know how I ever got on without it. I will have to give thunderbird a try, balsa looks like what I want, though the particular newsletter I get (Tom's Hardware) comes in full html, looks like a big picture when I view it online. Wonder if I can change that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schussat Posted August 15, 2003 Report Share Posted August 15, 2003 Are you sure you want pronto? It's still gtk1.2 :roll: :? Aha, good point -- I hadn't thought of that, as it's been quite a while since I used it last. If it gets updated, I'd say it's definitely worth a look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted August 15, 2003 Report Share Posted August 15, 2003 Another vote here for Firebird, I absolutely love it. And a mail client you could use is Thunderbird, it's pretty much a lightweight Mozilla Mail. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 17, 2003 Report Share Posted August 17, 2003 split and edited by bvc BooYah wrote this here....then I took it way off topic. So here's the new.....Stupid Mutt Tricks Sylpeed-claws formats the html into text pretty well with clickable links. If I want, I click on a link and MozFirebird opens that link, or use MozFirebird to read the html version of an email (like what aru wrote about). Mutt is just too damn ugly for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mac Posted August 17, 2003 Report Share Posted August 17, 2003 I can read html with sylpheed-claws. Mac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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