Oh cheers gore for that reply.

So from what i understood the main (and maybe only) issue is, that its overbloated. I cant say anything, since from a GUI point of view i only used this one for like ages, so i have no real comparison to match it up with (I used to use pine VERY long ago, and liked it). I would like to give kmail a try, but ONLY if i can use it without having to actually install KDE on the system. Some kde apps are known to work without the entire kde package installed. I will give it a try though and see

Current system: Slackware 13.1, with fluxbox on a not too old box (dual core @ 2.6, & 3 gigs of ram).

Cheers