Comments from users

I've been using Arrow for quite a while now, wouldn't want to even think about sorting out my incoming email without it.

-- Phil Salkie

I've just had the honour to download, install, and run Arrow for the first time and was quite amazed that getting going was as simple as falling off a log! None of the usual shenannigans with compiling from src.

I also love the fact that Arrow uses the system mailbox, thus allowing text mail reading at the same time as having an X interface available. This also made it simple for me to copy over folders and mailboxes from my old Windoze Eudora setup.

-- Harry Davis

I have just downloaded and tried Arrow for the second time. The first time, it was too unusual, but after ploughing through dozens of Linux MUAs tying to find a simple and efficient one that does not take up a whole screen, is so cluttered and complex as to be virtually unusable, etc., I have tried Arrow again and am now seeing the real virtues. With MIME support, HTML, and the ability to use a selection of different "From" identities, I am in email heaven!

-- John Mellor

I went through about all the Linux email GUIs on Freshmeat, plus looked hard at mutt. (I was using kmail for a few months until I realized it loses occassional mail - unforgivable.) Although I was put off at first because Arrow looked so different from the standard concept of a mail reader, on second acquaintance I'm most impressed with it, and more than impressed: you've reconceived it quite well from the ground up rather than recycling the same old thing.

Arrow looks different because it's real engineering rather another knock-off of a tired old interface. After a half-hour learning curve, it's the most pleasant mail reader I've used in 17 years online.

Thanks for a really original contribution in a crowded, me-too space.

-- Whit Blauvelt

[Arrow is a] much more stable and less memory intensive client than Netscape. I am fearing that I may soon find it indispensable.

POP3 works perfectly. Very fast. Takes me less then 30 seconds to retreive 45 (text) e-mails on a P100 running XFree86 3.3.6. And it doesn't go *blink* and shutdown every 90 minutes or so like Netscape does. Nor does it eat up 30MB of memory like Netscape does. Kudos to Glenn for writing Arrow so clean and fast.

-- Van

This is a complete, and in many ways unique, email client. I ran through just about every one listed on freshmeat.net. Arrow was the only one that passed every test. At first it seems a little odd - but give it a try and get used to the layout. It's actually quite straight forward once you get the hang of it.

To those who are rummaging through all the clients out there, this is definitely worth a try.

-- Izaak Branderhorst

Arrow is way better than any other email program I've found for Linux. I can completely relate to the person who had been through all the mail programs at freshmeat and ended up with Arrow. It is just better than the others.

-- Morten

I tried out the 1.0.8 version of Arrow and wanted to say great job. The app flows very well. One of the best useable designs out there.

I'm going to pass the info on to my friends. We have been looking for a good GUI Email client for Linux. Great Job!

-- Budman

Having looked all over the place for a nice GUI MUA that monitors multiple inboxes, I finally found Arrow. I get my mail using fetchmail and filter it into multiple mbox-files using procmail. Arrow is very good in handling this setup.

-- Stephan Henning

I really like Arrow! It seems to cooperate nicely with Pine, my usual mailer when I am away from an X term. This is a major bonus. There are actually very few useful X mailers out there, and most of them don't work well in conjunction with other mailers.

-- Marc Joanisse

I've been using Arrow for some time on a Linux box. There are a lot of things I like very much about it, particularly the way that it can coexist with Pine in our environment where security issues don't allow us to send mail directly from our own computers. I would also have a hard time giving up the features provided by the GUI for sorting mail, etc.

-- Randy J. Read

I love Arrow. It is exactly what I've been looking for in a mail client. Simple, powerful, and has encryption.

-- James David Meacham, 3rd

This program is great!!! Works fast, is easy to use, and is the best I ever found!

-- Bouke J. Henstra

If you continue developing and improving Arrow at this tempo, I believe it will be able to answer all my emails by itself in a few years...

-- Ivan Antic

I wish! I also want it to be able to read my mind, though I haven't yet figured out how to do that either, yet. -- Glenn

All comments edited for spelling and grammar.