searching for mail clients or balsa fix

viniosity · 11-01-2001, 07:57 AM

I'm looking for a good GUI mail client for a network installation of Debian 2.2r3. (shared amongst several employees at work)

Balsa seems to have a lot of good features, but on my 1024X768 display the text is so small I can't read my mail! Does anyone know how to make the text bigger? (there's no cntrl-+ equivalent like Mozilla?)

Else can somebody recommend a good GUI mail client that may not have that problem?

GonzoJohn · 11-01-2001, 09:49 AM

Take a look at Sylpheed. Very nice GTK client that's fast and light, and it works very well. I've been using it for over a year waiting to see if any other clients would be superior, and I haven't found one yet.

Source and RPMs are available, I'm not sure about DEBs, but check them out at

http://sylpheed.good-day.net/

crash89 · 11-01-2001, 01:05 PM

Sylpheed is good but you may also want to try Evolution. You can get it at www.ximian.com.

zhenwu · 11-02-2001, 02:45 PM

I have used both of the above and I would say (if you are used to using windows) that Sylpheed is much like Outlook express, whereas Evolution is a lot more like Outlook, with its calender, scheduler etc.

They are both very nice, but the Ximian-Gnome package overall is fantastic.