On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:07:39 -0700 Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote: > I'm a Thunderbird user almost since day one, but now I'm looking for > something else. A hearty vote for sylpheed from me - http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ ... or anything else that uses MH-style mailboxes instead of the monolithic mbox ones that TB and similar programs use. To me, that's the biggest scaling issue - TB puts all your mails in one huge file per topic ie INBOX SENT TRASH CENTOS etc - at least, it used to, haven't used it in _years_. With MH-style mailboxes, you have one file per message, one directory per topic. Much more scalable, manageable. Sylpheed has linux and windows packages available. Solaris, AIX. HP-UX, Tru64, IRIX, MacOS, *BSD ports are all mentioned as working. It is lightweight but seems to do everything I need a mailer to do. Not sure about packages ready-built for Centos although building from source shouldn't be hard. A quick google found this: http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/el5/sylpheed-3.1.0-1.i386.rpm FWIW - the compiled version is in the fedora mainstream. BTW - sylpheed has file import and export filters for mbox and outlook. Have fun! Bob -- Bob Hepple <bhepple at promptu.com> ph: 07-5584-5908 Fx: 07-5575-9550