Mail Client of the Year

Jessii · 02-18-2006, 04:04 AM

When I first installed Mandriva I used Kmail and found it easy and usable.
Now I'm in Gnome on Gentoo, so Kmail is not an option. I tried Evolution, but I never really needed all it's featers, so I switched to Sylpheed. Simple, fast, easy.

darthtux · 02-19-2006, 05:43 AM

I use gmail. But I do like thunderbird and mutt.

kozaki · 02-19-2006, 02:19 PM

Opera M2 takes care of my various POP accounts & over 3000 messages + newsgroups + occasionaly RSS (of which videos). If only it took some Chinese input from SCIM...

Having read some opinion here I'd like to give Sylpheed a try

jhigz · 02-19-2006, 09:56 PM

Normally Firefox + Gmail here. The only local mail client on my machines is Thunderbird.

jcf_slack · 02-21-2006, 02:29 PM

I would say Kmail/Kontact

stress_junkie · 02-21-2006, 02:51 PM

Kmail/Kontact for me too. I like Kmail largely because it uses the maildir format, where each email message is in its own file. Mail clients that use a container file (mbox format) make me crazy. Not only does the file get larger over time which HAS to slow down processing, but it is very difficult to restore a single email message from backup. If each email message is contained in its own file then restoring from backup is easy.

patisawsome · 02-21-2006, 03:52 PM

Thunderbird is the champion of the world. Thunderbird is the Chuck Norris of mail clients. Easy to use yet full of features.

berkes · 02-24-2006, 02:28 AM

kmail intergrates wonderfull.

Haines Browsn · 02-24-2006, 06:31 AM

I find the poll a bit frustrating, for in several categories, what I use is not listed. For example, for a mail client, I use emacs-rmail. It has some limitations, but also some advantages. It would be nice to at least have the option "other".

alaskazimm · 02-24-2006, 10:39 AM

Thunderbird mainly, but I like Kmail too.

Livestradamus · 02-24-2006, 12:03 PM

kmail kills the kompetition

shotokan · 02-27-2006, 02:04 AM

mutt has no bugs just fleas.

brockers · 02-28-2006, 09:46 AM

Kmail and Thunderbird are really the only choices here (at least for a modern GUI desktop.) Thunderbird lacks the functionality and just feels slower. Enterprise integration is also important where I'm at and Kmail fits the bill much better than Evolution (slow and broken ass piece of crap!)

Bobby

Satissh Srinivasan · 02-28-2006, 05:40 PM

Mutt rocks, seriously rocks. If you go for GUI clients, i luv thunderbird.

anupamsr · 03-01-2006, 01:57 AM

I have moved to KMail now because of its integration with KDE along with KNode, but I voted for Thunderbird. It is the most intuitive.

Personally, I am getting frsutrated by KMail because of its bogus overall presentation and utterly poor 'view' options. Similar is the case with KNode, though it crashes less than Kmail.

Is it only me who thinks KDE applications focus more on Eye-Candy than usability? So many useless options but not the basic ones? Except amaroK, konqueror and konsole, no KDE application addresses basic (standard) issues.