GUI mail clients

[Stephen J. Turnbull <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> Jim == Jim Jackson <jj [at] scs.leeds.ac.uk> writes:

Jim> On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Will Newton wrote:

>> Just thought I'd ask, although I think I know the answer:

>> Are there any *good* GUI email clients preferably for
>> GTK/GNOME?

Jim> By definition there are no good GUI mail clients :-) The
Jim> mouse always gets in the way.

Oh, I dunno about that. I kinda like Kyle Jones's VM. You do have to
be able to stand [X]Emacs to use it though. ;-) I should do something
about all the buttons I never use, I guess.... I use the Quit button
and the Help==Don't Panic/MIME Decode button frequently, the folder
menu a lot, and a couple of the other menus occasionally.

Although 95% of my interaction is keyboard-oriented, I do often use
the scrollbars, the sash (the horizontal bar in the middle allows
changing the division between summary and presentation windows), and
in the current beta version of XEmacs (the screenshot is the latest
release version) I can sometimes (when my alpha code and the beta
XEmacs's Lisp interpreter agree on API) use tabs (like in a Windows
configuration dialog) to select which folder to read.

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