[newbie] Sylpheed-claws

[Antony Hilliard]

Hi Dorothy,

Since noone has offered an answer yet, I'll throw my two cents in.  I've been 
using KMail 1.5 under KDE3 for four months now and have no complaints to make 
at all.  It has a spell checker as well as the address-auto-complete feature 
you mention, plus is quite quick and responsive.

Of course KMail has many disadvantages too.  It uses QT instead of the Gnome 
GTK+ toolkit that Sylpheed is based on, so unless you already have KDE 
installed you will get a lot of extra libraries taking up room on your disks.  
Also, the version that I am using is currently not yet in Debian Woody.  
Using apt-get you would be installing the KDE2 version, which is apparently a 
little rougher around the edges.

You could also try Evolution, an Outlook look-alike that from all accounts is 
quite easy to use and featureful.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

-Antony Hilliard


On January 6, 2003 05:05 pm, D.N.Mindenhall wrote:
> I am running Sylpheed-claws (need a spell checker) but not very happy with
> the address book - which I haven't actually figured out as Help is
> non-existent. I've only been using it for a couple of days and previously
> used Pegasus which I really liked. Can anyone recommend a mail program
> which has the address completion feature found in Pegasus (when you begin
> to type the address it completes it with the last used address beginning
> with that letter) as well as a spell checker? I'm running Debian woody.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dorothy
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