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At the moment I am using Phoenix 0.5 with BL2.  I tried 0.6 
but it has been bloated by feature-creep and is slower than 
0.5.  I've had some success running Skipstone on Phoenix.  
As some of you probably know, Skipstone is not a complete 
browser, it is just a slim front-end that uses parts of 
Mozilla.  Skipstone can't run without a copy of Mozilla.  
It occurred to me that Phoenix has a structure very similar 
to Mozilla, so (just for fun) I pointed Skipstone at the 
Phoenix files (MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/local/bin/phoenix) 
and "lo and behold" it worked.  Skipstone seems to be faster 
on Phoenix (but I haven't been able to do a proper test on 
this computer because it doesn't have enough HD space for 
the full Mozilla).

I've also had some success with sylpheed on BL2.  There's
a package available for it at the DeliLinux site.  
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ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/delilinux/deli/xap/sylpheed.tgz
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It's a Slackware-type package, so it installs easily with
installpkg (and uninstalls just as easily).  I think the
only additional libraries required are in the gtkglib.tgz  
package (in /slakware/gtk1).  I had already installed that 
package (and several others) on this computer so sylpheed 
ran first time, with no dependency problems.

sylpheed is an X email client.  It makes a good companion
for Opera, Phoenix, links2 or any other browser that doesn't
have a built-in POP/SMTP client.  sylpheed is very quick on 
my P166, but that is the slowest machine I have available at 
the moment (I've just thrown away one 486 and the other is 
in pieces).  I'm quite impressed by sylpheed (but I've only
been using it a couple of hours).  I'd be interested to hear
what other BL2 users think, particularly those running it on
486s or low-end Pentiums.

Cheers,
Steven