While I puzzle over why thunderbird crashes, can anybody
recommend another mail user agent from pkgsrc which supports
the ISO 10646 charset (Unicode UTF-8) as thunderbird does? 

I tried the sylpheed-claws package, but it doesn't like UTF-8
fonts at all. 

TIA, 

Gan
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