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I just discovered a great Linux mail client called Sylpheed. It's powered by GTK, so it integrates nicely with GNOME apps, and it works wonderfully. I was looking for something that wasn't Evolution (it crashed too much, and is just too big), wasn't Thunderbird (it royally mangles IMAP in an attempt to implement Trash, and it's too user-friendly for me ;-)), wasn't mutt (it is just a little cryptic for me, and doesn't have a nice abstract folder tree), and wasn't telnet (you've never watched me check POP3 mail with Telnet? oh, it's fun.)
Sylpheed is nice. It's fast--it handles a folder with about 2500 messages with ease, and is giving no signs of slowing down. It filters messages as they're downloaded (it doesn't lag behind) and filters that same folder of 2500 messages in about 5-10 seconds. (However, I wish it had a progress bar when filtering an entire folder.) This is important, since I tend to keep large archive folders and don't want to resort to the practice of artificially grouping messages by date. It has good PGP support as well--important for any geek who's trying to "stick it to the man", and for people who actually have secrets to keep, too ;-). Many GNOME programs seem like "the quintessential GNOME _____ program"--the program that looks perfect, has just the features you need, and just works. Sylpheed so far seems like the quintessential GNOME mail program.
I've also tried sylpheed-claws, which is a "next-generation" version of Sylpheed. It's nice, but a little rough around the edges, and not as elegant.
Related: Mutt, a text-based email reader. I have since decided that it is not quite as "cryptic" as I thought it was when I was using Sylpheed, and now use it as my regular email reader.
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