Claws-Mail: a fantastic mail client
Zoltan Szabo
szzoli at elte.hu
Sat May 5 11:12:34 UTC 2007
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:41:43 -0400
Jorge Luis Gonzalez <lists at jorge.cc> wrote:
> I'm not one of the developers and this is a totally unprompted
> recommendation, but, if you haven't tried it, I can't say enough good
> things about the Claws Mail client. It's an extended version of
> Sylpheed, I think, and is the only graphical (Gtk) mail program I've
> found that comes anywhere near to Mutt.
>
> Unlike Evolution, it does only one thing, but it does that one
> thing--mail handling--very, very well indeed. Plugins are available
> to handle PGP in all its various permutations; to read PDFs inline;
> there's even a Perl plugin that allows you to script actions that
> can't be configured natively, though what those may be I can't
> imagine.
>
> If you're looking for a mail client that can chew through a large
> number of mailing lists, do check it out: threaded indexing (à la
> Mutt), handles quote levels in contrasting colors (like Mutt), and is
> set up for easy pre- and post-processing of mails. It's also
> fast--much faster than Evolution. (I have to admit that even as a Nat
> and Miguel fanboi.)
>
> I still use Mutt to read mail on the server, but when I'm on my Fedora
> box, Claws Mail is just so good I just had to share.
>
> (Be sure to get the claws-mail-plugins RPM if you try it out.)
>
> JL
What about a "go to next unread thread" feature (=mark all the mails as
read in a given thread and jump to the next unread thread, to the first
unread mail of it)?
Thanks in advance for any info,
Z.
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