[xubuntu-users] Text email clients--Mutt, Alpine, Cone--anyone use them?

[kelly]

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:09:51 -0400
Robin <dixiedancer at gmail.com> wrote:

> kelly wrote: Speaking of that and Xubuntu being a 'light' derivative
> of Ubuntu, why not not drop Thunderbird (like a bad habit) and use
> Claws instead? I depends on what you want from an e-mail client. I
> like to fill my private e-mails with pictures and gifs and silly
> decorative formatting (kid stuff, I guess people will say). In Claws
> Mail you have to use "an external editor" to send HTML mail. The only
> external editor I'm familiar with is Abiword. So I would end up
> sending a text mail with an Abiword document attached. No thanks.
> 
> I do find that the SeaMonkey "internet suite" is a whole bunch
> lighter than using Firefox and Thunderbird separately. Even Puppy
> uses (or used to) Seamonkey as it's default browser/e-mail software.
> It works and acts pretty much the same as an older version of
> FF/T-Bird.
> 
> -Robin
> 
> 

What 'brand' of client you use is up to you.  What I am saying is make
Claws the default client.  Then, for those who do not like Claws:

(1)  Expunge it, then;
(2)  Install the package you like.

Simple, sleek, fast.

-- 
krp
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