Lubuntu 14.10 and after
brendanperrine
walterorlin at gmail.com
Mon Jun 2 17:25:50 UTC 2014
On Mon, 2 Jun 2014 10:48:29 +0100 (BST)
"N. W." <nw9165-0219653 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > c. marlow wrote:
> >
> > [...] What makes CLAWS better than say Thunderbird? or EVO? [...]
>
> Just some examples:
>
> In my experience, both, Claws Mail and Sylpheed use a lot less memory
> (RAM) than Thunderbird and Evolution.
>
> Thunderbird and Evolution are using a lot more memory (RAM).
>
> Also, Thunderbird is no longer being actively developed by Mozilla, see:
>
> https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/07/06/thunderbird-stability-and-community-innovation/
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/New_Release_and_Governance_Model
>
> By the way:
>
> I am not too familiar with Qt email clients yet, but, as far as I can
> see, there is only one Qt email client available which can compete with
> Claws Mail and Sylpheed in terms of memory (RAM) usage. And that is
> Trojitá (http://trojita.flaska.net/). However, at the same time it
> seems to offer less features than Claws Mail and Sylpheed. So, not sure
> if it really could replace Claws Mail or Sylpheed. Just saying.
>
> Regards
>
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I haven't used trojita but the imap forwarding button for sylpheed for gmail is a really easy setup and even works for google apps from my college. This simple setup is great.
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