graeme_p - 7:36 am on Feb 13, 2009 (gmt 0)

HuskyPup,

Popcorn is not being developed or updated any more so I am not sure it is a good idea to keep using it on any platform. Also its aim seems to be to treat POP3 as though it was IMAP. Why not just use IMAP?

You might try Claws as a lightweight mail client. You can configure it to leave mail on a POP server. You should (I have not tried) be able to configure it to keep mail in /tmp/shm so mail is stored only in memory. Config is not in a single file, but it is in a single (hidden) directory.

Simon, I would qualify your comment about Wine. It is probably true for you because I would guess you spend a lot (or most) of your time using Adobe products (Dreamweaver and/or Photoshop). Wine is a great alternative for people who only spend some of their using one or two Windows only apps - I have been using Linux for seven years and have only used Wine to check my sites render correctly in IE.

Incidentally, those people who are deterred from moving to Linux because of oone or two apps, should email the vendor and ask for a Linux version. If they see evidence of demand they will produce it.

I also think Macs are a good alternative in this situation. You get your Adobe software available, a Unix like OS with open source components (Darwin, webkit) and with many of the apps you would use on Linux available as well.