My head is swimming a bit trying to limit my choices of mail clients to test.
I'm wondering if someone can help narrow my choices. Background: Like many, I'm coming from a Windows environment. I've got three linux machines under my desk and for a year now I've booted Win98 used basically only browsers and Eudora (3.0) on my Win98 machine, and spent all day with SecureCRT ssh'ed into my Linux machines and to other machines I work with. So, to start off with, I'm looking to make the transition to full-time Linux easy by finding similar tools to I'm used to using. I was using RedHat 7.2 for a while and I actually liked the KDE setup, although a bit heavy weight. But I also like how light-weight of a setup I now have with Debian. (I suppose I'll need a desktop environment at some point.) So, for graphical mail clients: Knowing that I'm coming from a simple life with Eudora (and have never liked Outlook), any comments or simple overviews of the following: I know it's a lot to ask, but please no flame wars on which client stinks or is best. I guess I'm looking for someone with a similar history as mine that can say "try this", or "Evolution is cool, but it's too huge and slow..." Evolution: Mahogany: Aethera: Balsa: Sylpheed: (which I just read about on this list). Also, on my home machines (I think) I'd like to switch to IMAP to make managing mail from different locations a bit better. I know very little about IMAP. Currently I think I've got about 50,000 messages in my Eudora folders, so I'm not clear if IMAP will be slow working with that many messages. And not related to email, anyone have a replacement suggestion (other than Emacs ;) for my old basic friend on the windows side of Program File Editor (pfe)? I'd also like to find a nice client like SecureCRT for linux. Something a little more feature rich than xterm. Sorry for the wide open question, but any pointers to reduce the time to evaluate various mail (and other) packages will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
