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Please suggest compact, lightweight email client
rjbull:
I use The Bat! Pro on my main laptop, but now have a budget ultraportable (Xidu Tour Pro) as a back-up. It only has a 128Gb SSD (though it has a slot for a second one, which I haven't looked into). I'm looking for a compact, lightweight email client for it. A quick search turns up TheBat! as "lightweight", but recent versions have jumped from about a 40Mb download to 120Mb. I could use The Bat! Voyager on a USB stick as the Pro license covers this, but I'm wondering if there are other recommendations. I briefly tried i.Scribe / InScribe and didn't get on very well with it, but might take another look. Otherwise, the commonest suggestions seem to all be ports from Unix/Linux:
* Alpine
* Sylpheed
* Claws Mail (a fork of Sylpheed)
Is there anything else I should consider, please?
nogojoe:
I use The Bat! Pro on my main laptop, but now have a budget ultraportable (Xidu Tour Pro) as a back-up. It only has a 128Gb SSD (though it has a slot for a second one, which I haven't looked into). I'm looking for a compact, lightweight email client for it. A quick search turns up TheBat! as "lightweight", but recent versions have jumped from about a 40Mb download to 120Mb. I could use The Bat! Voyager on a USB stick as the Pro license covers this, but I'm wondering if there are other recommendations. I briefly tried i.Scribe / InScribe and didn't get on very well with it, but might take another look. Otherwise, the commonest suggestions seem to all be ports from Unix/Linux:
* Alpine
* Sylpheed
* Claws Mail (a fork of Sylpheed)
Is there anything else I should consider, please?
-rjbull (January 15, 2022, 03:19 PM)
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Pegasus Mail only 12mb
Contro:
I use thunderbid portable or not.
In the past I use other client emails. Specially because I have a lot of accounts to control...
:-* :P
Tuxman:
+1 for Pegasus Mail. Note that the developer has been working on the 5th major version for quite a while now, version 4.x is not quite contemporary in look&feel*. (Which is OK for me, but less OK for other people - especially as you come from The Bat!.)
I, personally, also own and primarily use a license for Pandora Mail which I - incidentally - first saw on DonationCoder. It has replaced The Bat! for me when RITlabs decided to use ribbon toolbars which I don't want to use. Pandora Mail 4.1 uses roughly 53 megabytes (plus the profile folder which can not completely be moved off %APPDATA% as far as I can see) of disk space, it seems to not have a portable mode (yet?). Of course, you should be fine with 90s GUI design... (you can configure some of that.) :)
(* screenshot: Pegasus Mail 4.7 on Windows 11)
If you like Alpine (which is good software, I admit), other interesting command line clients for Windows include NeoMutt and a few others, but note that usual "ported to Windows" software mostly requires jumping through quite a few hoops to use the file system over Cygwin... :)
rjbull:
+1 for Pegasus Mail. Note that the developer has been working on the 5th major version for quite a while now, version 4.x is not quite contemporary in look&feel*. (Which is OK for me, but less OK for other people - especially as you come from The Bat!.)-Tuxman (January 23, 2022, 10:22 PM)
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I dabbled with Pegasus long ago. I much prefer The Bat!'s permanently-visible tree of accounts, but the thing I hated about Pegasus was its default of deleting all mail on the server. It felt like a deliberate attempt to lock you in. Still, forewarned is forearmed.
I, personally, also own and primarily use a license for Pandora Mail which I - incidentally - first saw on DonationCoder.
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Pandora Mail 4.1 uses roughly 53 megabytes (plus the profile folder which can not completely be moved off %APPDATA% as far as I can see) of disk space, it seems to not have a portable mode (yet?). Of course, you should be fine with 90s GUI design... (you can configure some of that.) :)
-Tuxman (January 23, 2022, 10:22 PM)
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I briefly tried Pandora when I saw your earlier post, and couldn't make head nor tail of it! Software doesn't usually leave me baffled (though a trial disk of DOS AskSam did). But, I spent the 90s (and after) determinedly clinging on to DOS software, and I don't think it was until 1998 or so that changes at work meant I finally had to come to terms with WinGUI. Maybe I missed out on that era.
It has replaced The Bat! for me when RITlabs decided to use ribbon toolbars which I don't want to use. -Tuxman (January 23, 2022, 10:22 PM)
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Nor do I. I'm still using The Bat! 9.1.18. Perhaps the new UI is responsible for some of the recent bloat:
thebat_64_9-1-18.msi 42,135,552
thebat_64_9-4-5.msi 143,663,104
If you like Alpine (which is good software, I admit), other interesting command line clients for Windows include NeoMutt and a few others, but note that usual "ported to Windows" software mostly requires jumping through quite a few hoops to use the file system over Cygwin... :)
-Tuxman (January 23, 2022, 10:22 PM)
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Ouch. That could be a disincentive :(
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