Mail clients in Linux

[Bob Lockie]

On Sat, 20 Mar 1999 17:52:43 +0100, Roger Lindmark wrote:

>On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:38:23 -0800, Steve Scotten wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:53:52 -0500, Robert Novitskey wrote:
>>
>>>No.  I am one of several people who happens to think that Java at
>>>this stage is a *bad* development platform.  You must curtail your
>>>feature set to the speed constraints applied by the platform.  Right
>>>now, the performance just isn't there.
>>
>>I dunno. That heinous Italian Java PMMail-ripoff ran OK on my 166 mHz machine.
>>Cartainly *faster* than the PMMail I fell in love with on my 66 mHz 486 OS/2
>>machine. If that level of performace was good enough four years ago, it should
>>be now that 400 mHz Pentium IIs cost less than what 66 mHz 486s cost 4 years
>>ago.
>>
>
>It is  not only the processors that gets faster, but also  Java itself.
>I just installed Java 1.1.7 and noticed an increase in speed and
>reliablity. The great obstacle in getting PMMail-Java might perhaps be
>that BoB and Ike perhaps know this programming language?

I tried jstreet and it was too slow when decoding attachments.

Have you tried that Italian ripoff with attachments?