Phil's Blog

Hi all!

Still looking for a light footprint, fast email client under windows, I have done some googling and here are what I have found:

• i.scribe / in.scribe. It seems to be efficient, light and still in development. The free version, i.scribe, can only support one account. I have not achieved to configure gmail using IMAP protocol. So wait for another update.
• Becky. It seems very efficient, light, powerful. But it is 40$. You can try it for free for 30 days.
• Mulberry. It doesn't seem to be still in development. Open source, light and efficient email client. It fails in fetching all my email from my gmail account. But it is very fast! There is a nice review about it there
• The Bat!. It seems as good as Becky.
• sylpheed. I'm using this one daily. It is light with many features, but to me it is slow on windows (v2.6.0). I will install the version 3.1 this week end. UPDATE: i have moved to the 3.1 version. It is as light as usual, works, and maybe a little bit faster.
• Alpine mail, a full CLI mail client.
• Mahogany mail, last realase august 2006. Not supported : PGP.
si.mail. Not supported : IMAP, PGP.
• an interesting service to secure and follow email use : opolis

Labels: alpine, becky, gmail, i.scribe, imap, in.scribe, inscribe, iscribe, mail, mulberry, opolis, pop, sylpheed, the bat, thunderbird, windows

Hi all!

Tonight, I was looking on how to use a CLI mail client on Windows. I found :

* Alpine
* Mutt.

I have choosed to use Alpine, which look more adapt on windows. So, here is a quick setup how to.

Then, you can mix Alpine with stunnel and avast for a light mail solution on your laptop.

You can add some check spelling.

If you want to manage you professionnal email over MS Exchange (OWA), you can use some additionnal tools such as :
* msfetch
* OWA sync

Additionnal interesting links:
quick how to about interfacing msfetch and mutt
light data base
pmail, or a way to send emails
mail server easy to setup on linux only
mutt and ldap
mail drop on alpine
mbox on alpine
how to save email on your local hard drive with alpine, it means how to work offline with Alpine
Alpine mail client installation
Maildrop Alpine feature: it moves a message from a remote/local folder to another remote/local folder
A PINE dedicated website
another PINE configuration example
dealing with PGP and ALPINE mail client. It is based on filter definition. May work with WinXP
a project to glue PGP and alpine (official wabsite). Works on Unix. It is a start point to work with windows
some additionnal explication about TOPAL configuration on ArchLinux
another how to on alpine, in French

Labels: alpine, aspell, CLI, LDAP, mail, mutt, pine, plugin