Thank you Jeremy for inspiring me to look in the docs. I got it to be 'almost' 
the way I want it to be. In any case I think that claws mail would be good 
except I can't download it. I'll look into the tarbAll again. There we go. I 
am now compiling it. That didn't work. it responds:

checking for GLIB - version >= 2.6.0... no
*** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for 
the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly 
installed.
configure: error: Test for GLIB failed. See the file 'INSTALL' for help.
bmike1@1[sylpheed-claws-2.6.0]$

so I think this is no problem. that I just need to download the correct glib. 
But which glib? If it is glibc the latest version seems to be 2.4.? . So what 
should I do?

if you need the log: this is part of it.... there was all sorts of garbage in 
it and this might ohnly be partial. I'll emnmail it upon request
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config.log

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by configure, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.60a.  Invocation command line was

  $ ./configure

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = bmike1
uname -m = i586
uname -r = 2.6.15-26-386
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 PREEMPT Sat Aug 19 14:00:50 EDT 2006

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
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checking for iconv declaration...
  extern size_t i
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checking whether to use LibSM... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... (cached)yes 
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yeskdir takes one argument... no 
checking paths.h usability... yes 
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checking sys/param.h usability... yes.
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checking for frt... no checking for pgf77... no
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checking command
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checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes

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checking for alloca... yes

On Tuesday 21 November 2006 11:26 am, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > rxvt isn't an option because I can't start it without opening a terminal
> > (unless there is a 'run' option that I cannot find on the start menu or
> > with the 'f' keys).
>
> Read your icewm docs. You can have your own custom IceWM menu.
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