Juzer Burhani

Sylpheed is a fast, light weight and a user-friendly email and news client. It will run on just about any Linux or UNIX compliant system - Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X. And works on Windows as well. The interface is 3-paned display, similar to popular email clients like Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird etc. The interface is also designed to emulate the mailers on Emacsen, and almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard.
Features:

• Simple, beautiful, and well-polished user interface
• Comfortable operationality which is built in detail
• Well-organized, easy-to-understand configuration
• Lightweight operation
• High reliability
• Internationalization and Multilingualization support
• High-level Japanese processing
• Various protocols support
• Security features (GnuPG, SSL/TLSv1)
• Powerful filtering and search
• Junk mail control
• Flexible cooperation with external commands

Sylpheed is an open-source application that can be freely used, modified and redistributed.
Download:
Download Sylpheed 2.5

“Keep it short and sweet because if you don’t, you’ll get ignored.”

Christopher Elliott shares some good practices and etiquettes for sending e-mail messages to and from cell phones. Excerpts:

1. Begin messages with a one-paragraph summary of the entire e-mail, so readers on mobile devices can get to the heart of the issue immediately rather than scrolling down a tiny screen.

2. Keep your message so short and to the point that opening the actual message is unnecessary. For example, instead of a message header "call me, please," you should say "problem: pls call (your number)."

3. If you know you’re sending to a PDA (or mobile phone), mark your calendar to follow up with that person soon afterward, either by e-mail or phone. Because no matter how compelling your headline or your text, there’s still a good chance it might be forgotten.