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by uzoodoo 3356 days ago
How does it compare with Claws Mail [0]?

I've always assumed Claws is the more full-featured fork of Sylpheed, but seeing that they've diverged over a decade ago and are both still in development I'm curious how they compare.

[0] http://www.claws-mail.org/
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Yetanfou 3356 days ago
http://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/General_Information#...

Back in 2001 Claws Mail (formerly Sylpheed-Claws) started as the bleeding-edge version of Sylpheed, in order to act as a testbed for new features for Sylpheed. The idea was to regularly resync with Hiroyuki's main branch, and vice-versa. Claws Mail then evolved into the stable, extended version of Sylpheed, and in 2006 became an entity in its own right, in part due to different goals and the fact that syncing both codebases stopped happening. Claws Mail has many extra features compared to Sylpheed and is more powerful, yet is just as fast, lightweight and stable.

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uzoodoo 3356 days ago
Well, considering that was written a decade ago, it doesn't really answer my question...

http://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php?title=General_Inform...

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ubernostrum 3355 days ago
I'm looking at the screenshots there and getting shuddering flashbacks to when I used to use Linux as my full-time desktop environment.

The composition window which "helpfully" provides a breakdown of "Headers", "Attachments", and "Other" tabs. The preferences panel which thinks customizing the date format -- using strftime format strings -- is something that needs a preference...

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Yetanfou 3355 days ago
You can get the same preference-laden programs for MacOS (which, for some reason, I assume you now use) and Windows, this is not a Linux-thing. Linux users who want to have things decided for them can use Gnome [1] or Unity [2], no such 'superfluous' preferences or extraneous tabs there. Linux does not equate complexity, nor does MacOS or Windows equate sane defaults and simplicity (iTunes comes to mind as an anti-example).

The fact that these programs persist for such a long time indicates that there are people who prefer to make their own choices, no matter how superfluous these might seem in others eyes.

[1] https://www.gnome.org/ look ma, no preferences... [2] https://unity.ubuntu.com/ look ma, no future...

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