[wellylug] Best e-mail client

[David McNab]

On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 16:18, sljudd at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> Quoting William Hamilton <william at thevirtual.co.nz>:
> 
> > I suggest Evolution from Ximian. Multiple accounts, POP IMAP etc.. 
> > cal, tasks and contacts also an overview page. Up to 1.2 now and is
> > BRILLIANT!! Easy backup of directory for mail etc.
> 
> Seconded. I have Evolution 1.2, and it rocks my world. You will however need a
> machine with sufficient grunt to run Gnome.

Ditto - Evolution 1.1 was like a turtle with a hangover, but Evolution
1.2 now has totally revamped indexing. Speed is very acceptable - it's a
very comfortable program with no lack of features.

It also keeps its folders in standard mbox format, allowing for easy
export to other clients.

Also, its GnuPG integration is seamless. But a real killer feature is
the inbuilt to-do list and calendar, which along with emails, can be
easily synced with Palm Pilots (yes - Palm Pilot sync conduits are
provided).


KMail is also good, but not quite as flexible. Also, it munges the mbox
format somewhat, which is annoying because it takes a shell/perl/python
script to restore mbox format.


> You could also check out Balsa, which was OK when last I tried it and rather
> more lightweight.
> 
> There's a slew of GUI mail clients listed on Sourceforge and Freshmeat you could
> look at.
> 
> Lastly, it may be commandline, but you really should check out mutt. It is very,
> very good. Whenever I am away from a desktop, mutt is my client of choice.
> 
> Stephen
> 
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