Dear all,
I have a very old single core p4 laptop. Currently I am running latest opensuse with xfce and I am quite happy of the performance.
I would like to have an imap client for viewing my emails. Do you have something to suggest? (perhaps some xfce friendly application would do)
On 2013-07-05 13:26, alaios wrote:
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> Dear all,
> I have a very old single core p4 laptop. Currently I am running latest
> opensuse with xfce and I am quite happy of the performance.
> I would like to have an imap client for viewing my emails. Do you have
> something to suggest? (perhaps some xfce friendly application would do)
Pine or mutt.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
On 2013-07-05 16:06, farcusnz wrote:
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> Geary is listed as a recommended lightweight email app for xfce
>
> I’ve never used it (or xfce) so not sure what it is like. Try it out .
> . . it’s in the oss repo for 12.3
>
> There is also Claws and Balsa that are reasonably lightweight (at least
> when compared to Thunderbird or Evolution.)
Both geary and balsa fail to to connect to my local Dovecot imap server.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
On 2013-07-05 16:38, flymail wrote:
> On 2013-07-05, alaios <alaios@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>> is there a bit more heavy approach with some nice window?
>
> If you don’t like Mutt or Alpine (which I recommend over Pine),
The one on the distro has package name alpine, program name pine.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
IIRC Pine and Alpine are different programs. Pine had licensing issues and so a completely rewritten agent (Alpine) was
released with a different (and free) license. Pine was trademarked by the University of Washington and so it would be
wrong to call anything else Pine although Pine development has ceased (I think).
On 2013-07-05 17:13, flymail wrote:
> On 2013-07-05, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
>> The one on the distro has package name alpine, program name pine.
>
> IIRC Pine and Alpine are different programs.
Not really, the code is the same. No rewriting at all. I know because I
follow their mail list.
> Pine had licensing issues and so a completely rewritten agent (Alpine) was
> released with a different (and free) license. Pine was trademarked by the University of Washington and so it would be
> wrong to call anything else Pine although Pine development has ceased (I think).
It has ceased by most of original developers. They hosted the project
elsewhere when the UW pulled the plug, and started adding features and
bug corrections that were long delayed. It is the same code, plus the
new modifications.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)