Florin Andrei wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:22:05 +1000 > Bob Hepple <bhepple at promptu.com> wrote: > > >> A hearty vote for sylpheed from me - http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ ... >> > > I'm using it now on Linux, briefly tested it on Windows. > > Thumbs-down: scanning all the folders initially takes longer than Thunderbird. Every once in a while it re-scans them, during which time the folder list is not accessible. > > Thumbs-up: But it does that in a more predictable way than Thunderbird, and there are no mysterious lock-ups of the UI (when it re-scans, it clearly says so, and only the folder list panel is greyed out, not the Composer or whatnot). > > Maybe that's what Thunderbird does - re-scans the IMAP folders, but in a more sneaky way, and it's dumb enough to put a Big Lock on the whole interface. Hmm. I opened a bug report with them: > > I had a look around and found claws-mail (rpm from rf) that appears to be a fork of sylpheed but more features according to wikipedia - installed just fine - very responsive - the re-scan does take time, however you know what's happening as it tells you - not like tbird - it justs locks for indeterminate times on random occasions. > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650400 > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 322 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110418/dc0cfcd9/attachment-0005.vcf>