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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Matt Smed wrote:

> Should I just stick with the non-X applications?  In time, I could
> probably figure out how to use the included "mail" and "links" programs,
> and most X applications are slower on my machine anyways (although
> "dillo" is fast).
>
Well, you get alot more "bang for your buck" out of console apps.  I try
to avoid firing up X on my old pc's, but I do use them more or less for
hobby purposes.  Maybe to be more productive and "rea world" with them,
having X running more often would be desireable.  I use Pine for mail and
it works great.  Sylpheed, which Steven has mentioned is probably your
best bet for a gui mail client.  XFMail is also supposed to be a good and
lightweight graphical email prog, but it has more dependencies than
Sylpheed so may not be a very good option for BL.

James

PS Dillo 7.3 (plus a GTK lib on which it depends) are at my add-ons
download site now.  I copied it to there from the Delilinux site - so it
can be gotten from either place.