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Comment by wslh | Hacker News Reader

Sylpheed? http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ screenshots here: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/screenshot.html

I don't know how I ever missed this one when I searched for email clients. That looks like such a breath of fresh air: the download is under 10MB and it even supports GPG.

I guess I found a replacement for Thunderbird.

I second that! Thank you very much for the link. Looks like the perfect lightweight and powerful mail client. And the fact that it stores each mail in its own file is absolutely bombastic. I guess I can finally sync my mail on different machines using my cloud storage as the sync back-end.

Actually Claws is even geekier (used to be sylpheed-claws): http://claws-mail.org/

This looks fantastic, thank you. I can't get it to connect to Gmail yet, but it's a matter of time, and it looks very light and functional.

GTK still looks that bad? That is absolutely horrendous.

I personally vastly prefer that kind of aesthetic to the "modern", flat, web-inspired UIs that waste too much space.

No, GTK3 looks like this[1] these days[2], these screenshots use an ancient version.

[1] - http://i.imgur.com/0eLhrAM.png

[2] - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chergert/gnome-builder-web...

Thanks

Reminds me of the email suite from Netscape Communicator, which eventually evolved into Thunderbird.

http://www.sabah.net.my/manuals/en/nscomm/images/messwin.gif

Those screenshots are ten years old.

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