Comments on: When did you start using Sylpheed-Claws?

By: higuita

higuita — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:11:35 +0000

About in 2000 i tried MANY graphical linux email clients (light, fast and usefull – i still used a 486@160Mhz with 64Mb ram at that time) and the ones i most liked were the pronto (a perl email client) and sylpheed 0.4.?, but as sylpheed had some problems at the time, i used pronto… after some months (about 6-10) i read that the new sylpheed 0.5 fixed several big bug, so i tested it again and i liked it… pronto was good, but it stopped being updated and also had some problems, and i also didnt like storing the emails in a database, being able to read the email with mutt in a ssh sessions was one of my goals

After a new migration i liked sylpheed 0.5.x more and more, and it was getting lost of new features… after about a year i decided to try claws because of the features and i liked it even more. The dev were adding more and more great features and i never looked back, sylpheed does almost everything that i need, its still very fast and with the plugins its even better

So i would point about to September 2001 when i started to use sylpheed and about December of 2002 to claws. i havent the exact dates because i had one major HD lost a in about 2003 and use too many emails to keep tracking :)

anyway, thanks for sylpheed and sylpheed claws

higuita

By: Michael Hughes

Michael Hughes — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:45:14 +0000

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 09:35:36 -0500
X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsd4.4)

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:59:03 -0500
X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-freebsd4.7)

Took me a long time to stop using elm, I liked the fact that the emails where just in flat files. Then I found Sylpheed and I haven’t used anything else since.

By: wwp

wwp — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:47:01 +0000

I’ve started using both Sylpheed 0.5.1 and Sylpheed-Claws 0.5.2 (yes, at the same time or alternatively) around August 2001, after few years w/ KMail, mostly. Written patches for Sylpheed and Sylpheed-Claws up to version 1.0.1, then I’ve permanently switched to -Claws, as a contributor (then I joined the team).

By: chat-loupe

chat-loupe — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:45:54 +0000

Wow, I feel so young, here ;-) I’m using sylpheed-claws since 21 nov 2005 and I’m a big fan.

By: Stephan

Stephan — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:31:28 +0000

Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 12:44:51 +0200
X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0claws11 (GTK+ 1.3.0; Win32)

Windows ;) shame on me

Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 21:44:44 +0200
X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu)

*ahhh* better…
i was healed fast…

and today, i never used another mua than sc. Thanks for this great piece of software

By: Hoa

Hoa — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:29:44 +0000

I was one of the initiator with Alfons and Paul (and anyone I could be missing ?).
Started to use (work on) sylpheed(-claws) in summer 2000.

By: JG

JG — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:13:01 +0000

i started with claws 0.7.4, never used sylpheed because i always liked the features of sc. never thought of using any other mailer (except thunderbird for smime and i hate using it..)

JG^

By: Fabien

Fabien — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:29:11 +0000

If we sended a message on sylpheed(-claws) ML, archiver remember for you :
http://www.tmtm.org/cgi-bin/w3ml/sylpheed/
http://search.gmane.org/?query.....ws.general
(sort by reverse date :-))

About me, I found :
- for Sylpheed : 11 Apr 2002 , a bug report on textview
13 Apr 2002 : a first little patch :-)
- for SC : 2002-08-29, a bug report too on folder font used.

This page can help you to identify which version you used :
http://sourceforge.net/news/in.....;offset=50

For me, if it’s not 0.7.6claws, I’m sure it’s 0.7.8claws (I remember the Bounce -> Redirect). But I don’t remember the last cvs version used.

( ! ) It could be good to archive all release in SC website.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:51:39 +0000

I started in April 2002, with Sylpheed 0.7.5 on IRIX.

Switched to claws 0.9.0 in June 2003.

Every now and then I have a look at the alternatives, but nothing seems to fit
me better than claws.

Thanks!

By: jpgaulier

jpgaulier — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:03:18 +0000

To me, the old live archive I had is dated september 11, 2002. I think that it’s older than that, but I have to search on cds to check the correct info ;)

For information, I’ll began with sylpheed, before using claws.

I still use sylpheed-claws and I’m a french fan. Keep goin’