On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 23:06:16 +0200 No Spam <mailingli...@high5.alioth.uberspace.de> wrote:
> Hi, > > So it is 12 years later; > > has someone found something working? > > greets > > J More years ago, BeOS' email client was perfect for me. It use separate files and made very liberal use of BFS' equivalent of attributes to sort and organize messages. But BeOS development stopped. I briefly (*very* briefly) went back to Windows. Then discovered that Linux was ready for *my* desktop. SuSE worked for a while. Then I think it was etch that pulled me over to Debian. And there I found kmail which worked fine for me for a good number of years. It did everything I wanted and rarely displayed problems. About the time of squeeze or wheezy, kmail (and KDE for that matter) began slipping over the edge into the abyss. I finally found XFCE which is about as simple and is as useful as KDE3 was. Then I started searching and trying various email clients. I didn't like anything. Then I found claws-mail. It isn't perfect; it has a quirk or three. But, by and large, it's as usable and stable as kmail was lo those many years ago. But when Haiku (open source remake of BeOS) is ready for prime time, I will probably switch back to it. Especially since I can run most any OS I need in a KVM, and my 500-line KVM bash script lets me configure and fire up a VM in about two minutes. So yes, I found something: claws-mail.
