On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:07:39 -0700
Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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