LinuxWorld: Sylpheed: A fitter email client

“I found Sylpheed on Freshmeat, just as Raskinite had said I
would. I chose to download it in the RPM format, and in less than
five minutes from start to finish I had a new mail client ready to
go. One of the features listed on the Sylpheed homepage is the
ability to handle news as well as mail. Since that feature is
currently on hold in Evolution, I decided to check it out right
away.”

“One important caveat about Sylpheed — the help manual is
currently only available in Japanese. That gave me an excellent
opportunity to test its user interface for intuitiveness and ease
of use while trying to set it up as a newsreader. Having done so, I
would give it high marks in both categories.”

“I flailed about for a minute or two, but then decided that I
would need a new user account. That makes sense to me, since each
individual email account requires a separate user. So from the
Configuration menu, I selected Create New Account. Lo and behold,
in addition to POP and IMAP server types, there was an option for
News (NNTP protocol). That allowed me to define the news server and
to specify the maximum number of new articles to download at a
time.”

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