GUI replacement for mutt

[Jeffrey F. Bloss]

Felix 'buebo' Kakrow wrote:

> Hi,
> at the moment I'm using mutt for my mails and mostly it's a blast, but
> there are some things that anoy me, so I feel like giving a graphical
> program a shot again.
> 
> It should use a existing Maildir-Structure, play nice with procmail
> and spamprobe and have some macro captabilities. Good PGP/GnuPG
> Integration is a must and last but not least I would prefer GTK over
> QT.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestion!

Never used spamprobe, but as far as procmail goes I'd think it's more a
mater of getting procmail to play nice with a given mail client. The
client itself shouldn't really know about procamil, just that it gets
mail from "somewhere". Procmail just happens to leave it there. ;)

My personal favorite is Claws-Mail. Very "mature" client, does #MH by
default but has plugins for Maildir and Mbox. Good IMAP support,
seamless GnuPG support with an option to use gnupg-agent or it's own
internal pass phrase management, serviceable filtering with an optional
perl plugin that makes it even more serviceable, Vcalendar, S/MIME,
RSS, an "actions" capability to hook external programs/etc (I
occasionally have it read to me via festival), WinCE device support, a
couple HTML viewer options, PDF viewer, mail notifications,
inernationalization and multiple dictionary usage (on a per-folder
basis if memory serves, I don't use it that way), plugins for ClamAV
and Bogofilter, etc, etc, etc... :)

Very actively developed and maintained. There's an "unofficial" Ubuntu
repository, maintained by the author (he develops on an Ubuntu box I
believe), and sometimes problems are addressed and solved in minutes.
Literally. I think the record is 12. :)

Latest release version is 2.8.1 available here...

http://www.claws-mail.org/

Instructions for the repositories are toward the bottom of the download
page, or you can build from source, snapshot, or CVS if you're into
that.

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