On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:38:37PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > 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.)
The Ice Window Manager is about as lightweight as they come. > Evolution: Still very buggy. Would suit people who actually like Ouchlook Express. > Mahogany: No idea. > Aethera: No idea. > Balsa: Very basic but does its limited functions well. > Sylpheed: (which I just read about on this list). Quite nice. Used and discarded. Have a look at TKmail (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~raines/tkmail.html) and KMail. Star Office has its own mail program as well. > 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. I used to love GUI mail programs but after using Mutt for about five months, I wouldn't dream of going back. Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Linux and all free software is not about the smell of money but the improvement of community
