Brand new lightweight email client by a Pale Moon dev

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A Pale Moon developer called ‘athenian200’ has started making releases of a new, lighter email client called ‘Epyrus’.

One of the things I hate about computers is that the good email clients are usually massively bloated in my experience. This new Epyrus has been running very well for me. It sets up my email accounts automatically like Thunderbird (for most email services), and has the look and feel of older Thunderbird, probably around version 52. If I use it in purely online IMAP mode, it uses about 120mb of ram on my antiX system, and if I run it in full off-line mode (downloading all emails to the local machine instead of just the email headers), it uses about 200mb.

Here is the main Epyrus website: http://www.epyrus.org/
The download for GNU/Linux is a tarball: http://www.epyrus.org/download.html

To extract it, run ‘tar xvf epyrus-2.0.1.linux-x86_64-gtk3.tar.xz’.
Then cd into the resulting ‘epyrus’ directory. You can run it by the command ‘./epyrus’.

I’ll write a post a little later about how to integrate it into your menus and system. A lot of you already know how to do that kind of manual integration.

I’ve been using it since the first alpha version last fall, and it’s been running like a champ for me. Check it out if you are looking for an email client that’s fairly full-featured, but a bit on the lighter side.

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Hi, andyprough!

This is fork of http://binaryoutcast.com/projects/interlink/ ?

I try builded interlink for 32bit debian and it run on my old p-3 computer
http://disk.yandex.ru/d/-ynMOlrHFSu48Q/interlink-mail
But interlink have only english language and language-pack from TB-52 not suit for interlink

epyrus-2 have language packs?
or maybe language-pack from TB-52 suit for epyrus-2 ?

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Alpine clocks in at about 15 MiB. Of course, depends on your definition of full-featured (there is no calendar), but with a bit of tweaking in the setup files its amazing how fluid and easy to use it is. You really do have to change the settings though, as whats considered “sane defaults” has evolved quite a bit since it was released.

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Hello, it’s no coincidence that it reminds you of Thunderbird 52.9, because it’s forked of that code, i have also complied the old cpu friendly (gtk2 non-sse2 and nosse) versions;

– Hermopolis SSE 2.0.1 – Based on Epyrus 2.0.1 source code and built under Debian 9 with gcc-7 which is required (glibc 2.27) to run under Debian 9, under Debian 10/11 based distros run out of the box. (in processor-level sse instructions are required, (i.e. Pentium III, mobile and Celeron derivatives (Katmai, Coppermine, Tualatin), any Athlon Xp and K7 based Sempron, Geode NX and any Morgan or newer core Duron.)

– Hermopolis IA32 2.0.1 – Based on Epyrus 2.0.1 source code and built under Debian 9 with gcc-7 which is required (glibc 2.27) to run under Debian 9, under Debian 10/11 based distros run out of the box. (in processor-level cmov instructions are required, (i.e. Pentium Pro, Pentium II and Mendocino Celeron, as well as classic Athlon (from Argon to Thunderbird), Duron (Spitfire))

If you want to use Debian 9 based distros the above builds, built under Debian 9, you will need to compile gcc-7 from source, or here is a version i have already compiled and just have to copy it under /opt (or you can also use glibc tweak). Debian 10 and 11 already have newer compilers by default, so there’s nothing to do with this for distros based on those.

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user2022 wrote:

Hi, andyprough!

This is fork of http://binaryoutcast.com/projects/interlink/ ?

I try builded interlink for 32bit debian and it run on my old p-3 computer
http://disk.yandex.ru/d/-ynMOlrHFSu48Q/interlink-mail
But interlink have only english language and language-pack from TB-52 not suit for interlink

epyrus-2 have language packs?
or maybe language-pack from TB-52 suit for epyrus-2 ?

No this is a new project, although similar to interlink I think. But I never used interlink so not totally certain. Regarding language packs, it appears that they are being worked on, but I do not know the status: http://repo.palemoon.org/athenian200/epyrus/issues/11

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Hello!
One more fork of thunderbird – Icedove-UXP
https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:system:userspace:application:uxp:icedove-uxp
i tryed built it and it run on my p-III,
https://disk.yandex.ru/d/-ynMOlrHFSu48Q/icedove-uxp-202311 icedove-uxp_202311-1-sse1_i386.deb
But language-pack not work – like with interlink mail 🙁
https://mirror.fsf.org/hyperbola/sources/other/icedove-uxp/l10n/52.9.20210602/

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