[geeks] New Mail Client

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:26:53 +0000
Mike Meredith <very at zonky.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:58:09 -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > Personally, I find the gtk2 version to be faster and smoother.
> > 
> > It might be because gtk2 can use accelerated fonts and widgets.
> 
> It might be because we have CPU to burn these days 

True, but note that I said gtk2 appeared faster than gtk1.  With CPU to
burn, shouldn't I think gtk1 was even faster?

I think it might be related to how ugly gtk1 is on my system.  I might
be missing a library which would give me better performance or
something like that.

I upgraded a few things recently, so I could try building gtk-gnutella
with gtk1 and compare it to my normal build.  That program seems highly
affected by problems in the widget libraries.

> ... sylpheed gtk2
> under IRIX was definitely sluggish, but seems very fast on my Ultra
> 40.

gtk2 depends rather heavily now on accelerated widgets and fonts.

Before XRender was working, I found it too slow as well.

> > - imap not very fast
> 
> I'm old-fashioned enough to prefer my mail folders to be stored
> locally, and living without imap seems to clear up quite a few of your
> problems. It can get bogged down when doing stuff in my spam folders
> though (in the region of 200MB).

My desktop isn't always running the same OS.  I access the same email
accounts from three different machines so local spooling is not
possible.

imap is pretty old now, and I see bad imap as a serious flaw whether I
use it or not.  Most people don't have a choice.

> Nice thing about the key bindings is that you can change them on the
> fly by pressing the key you want to bind to whilst the menu item is
> highlighted. 

True.

I set some earlier today, but when I ran it again it had forgotten them.

Is there somewhere I need to go to save them?

> 
> > - filtering is non-standard and proprietary to sylpheed, but that's
> >   a common problem with all GUI MUAs right now.
> 
> And it's pretty powerful although I haven't compared it to a recent
> 'proper client' it does stuff that the GropeWoes (sorry ... GroupWise)
> client can't.
> 
> > - it has quite a few features
> 
> Indeed. 'Actions' are simple but nice ... essentially you can bind
> shell scripts to GUI commands, including some support for the MH
> commands (which won't work too well for imap of course).
> 
> It can be a bit flaky if you insist on loading up every possible
> plugin, but it does tend to crash gracefully ... I've never lost an
> email in years of using it.
> 


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