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Sylpheed is my all-time favorite e-mail app. In late 2001 I brought a Vaio C1 [1] back from Japan. 192 MB ram, Transmeta Crusoe processor that could burst to 6

Sylpheed is my all-time favorite e-mail app. In late 2001 I brought a Vaio C1 [1] back from Japan. 192 MB ram, Transmeta Crusoe processor that could burst to 600 MHz. Running Windows ME _everything_ was slow out of the box, but with Linux (Slackware), a minimal window manager (forget if it was XFCE, Enlightenment, or something else), and Sylpheed it just flew. Even with huge numbers of messages everything was snappy. It was amazing. I switched from Linux to Mac in 2009 and migrated to Mail.app at the time. It's not terrible, but even on recent hardware it feels more sluggish than Sylpheed did on that underpowered ultraportable in 2001. Good to see that it's still getting occasional updates 16 years later. 1. http://www.sony.jp/ProductsPark/Consumer/PCOM/PCG-C1VSX/ http://www.sony.jp/ProductsPark/Consumer/PCOM/PCG-C1VSX/

rntksi 9y ago
With MacOS, I particularly love MailMate. It's been with me for years, and I love how it handles the flow of editing mail messages. You take care of the contents, it takes care of formatting. If you've ever tried LaTeX, it's a similar concept.
- h1d 9y ago
  Used mailmate when Mail.app was slightly buggy some years ago but then got tired of mailmate being buggy as well (iirc, takes seconds selecting multiple mails, changes column width after showing mail folders on/off, message signature inserting unnecessary new line and crashes randomly and never had those fixed in a year or something), I switched back to Mail.app in Sierra, seems responsive and trouble free so far.
zomg 9y ago
i've been using spark on all my apple devices and i love it. reminds me of sparrow, before google gobbled them up. https://sparkmailapp.com/ https://sparkmailapp.com/
w8rbt 9y ago
I used Sylpheed in 2001 for awhile before moving mostly to mutt. Recently, I found my old Sylpheed mail folders. 16 years later Sylpheed reads those mail folders and works just like it did back in the day. Still very fast and responsive too.

rntksi 9y ago

With MacOS, I particularly love MailMate. It's been with me for years, and I love how it handles the flow of editing mail messages. You take care of the contents, it takes care of formatting. If you've ever tried LaTeX, it's a similar concept.

h1d 9y ago
Used mailmate when Mail.app was slightly buggy some years ago but then got tired of mailmate being buggy as well (iirc, takes seconds selecting multiple mails, changes column width after showing mail folders on/off, message signature inserting unnecessary new line and crashes randomly and never had those fixed in a year or something), I switched back to Mail.app in Sierra, seems responsive and trouble free so far.

zomg 9y ago

i've been using spark on all my apple devices and i love it. reminds me of sparrow, before google gobbled them up. https://sparkmailapp.com/ https://sparkmailapp.com/

w8rbt 9y ago

I used Sylpheed in 2001 for awhile before moving mostly to mutt. Recently, I found my old Sylpheed mail folders. 16 years later Sylpheed reads those mail folders and works just like it did back in the day. Still very fast and responsive too.