They're not designed to be email clients, they're web browsers.

Kmail, because it is so integrated with the KDE-PIM.

Thunderbird all the way :)

Opera is an email client (hence the Opera M2 option), but should not be considered one if you're using it for GMail (unless you POP mail off your GMail account).

When I'm in GUI, I use Evolution.

Otherwise, in console environment, I switch often between mutt and pine.

opera works, others quit...
 

my mail account is unchanged over the years, now evolution and thunderbird no longer work with my
simple unchanged settings...but opera works with
no effort...guess my vote! Why does stupid pride of
complexity keep destroying more and more linux apps?

Hello,

I use SquirrelMail regularly. That is because I use a webmail site and that is the app that they use and I am too lazy to setup the accounts in another program. However, I would prefer to use Mutt! When I finally stop procrastinating, I will see about using Mutt full time.

I use web mail almost exclusively. I can get at it anywhere with the same functionality, usability, look and feel cross platform. Sure there are many email clients which offer cross platform functionality, but they are not installed and configured everywhere, but I can usually find a web browser that is. Honestly, a traditional e-mail client is just about more trouble than it's worth.

pine gets my vote. Sure, the GUI ones are nice; but what is the point of using a GUI when not required?

Used to use Thunderbird but now I use Kmail so my vote goes for Kmail...

Well, w/all the recent Linux newbies and Mozilla fanboys who've never used anything else, it a cinch that Firefox and Thunderbird will easily win their respective categories, hands down. However, while Thunderbird is a godsend on Winblows, I'll take Sylpheed any day on *nix. I used Mutt for many, many years and it's an excellent mua. Sylpheed integrates everything I want/need (w/exception of sieve scripts - one major area where KMail rocks) and is still light, fast, and handles huge mailboxes w/aplomb. So Sylpheed gets my vote.

Voted for Claws Mail, but I don't see a big difference with Sylpheed.
But both are great and do the job.

If there was a GMail option, I would certainly have selected that. Of the available choices, pine was the only one that I used extensively this year (at my summer internship).

Pine is the one for me. I do not use gui mail clients for my primary email adres, because pine is so much faster. For my other mail (which is not that important) I use thunderbird

KMail, all the way. It's got TIGHT integration with KHTML, GPG, and KWallet. It's also fairly light and no-frills; it isn't a full groupware suite. Some people might not like that, but I do.

I've also found a pretty good setup for gmail; I get gmail to forward all messages to the smtp server on my machine. That way, I have a local archive, I can check my mail without using POP, and I get the benefits of a real mail client. However, the mail is still archived on gmail, for easy searching.

I can't say I've used thunderbird or evolution much. I='ve heard that evolution is a pretty good "groupware solution", particularly if you're using novell stuff. They have evolution for windows now, too, so that might be worth looking into.

i thought thunderbird at one point. then i tried evolution.

Evolution takes care of everything - Wonderful!

I chose mutt with fetchmail; I work in console instead of fluxbox sometimes, so mutt works best for me.

I go for evolution. simple and straight.

I like Sylpheed very much but need a quick way of switching between SMTP servers, and that is why I use Thunderbird. If I had this function in Sylpheed, that would be my clear choice.

Thunderbird All The Way!
 

I was using T'bird w/ Windows before I switched to Linux, and loved it then. I tried Evolution for a while because it was Ubuntu's default, but didn't like the way it randomly dropped pix and/or text formatting from messages while sending.:cry:

Also, the Address Book layout in T'bird is much better, IMHO.

I'm running Sylpheed 2.3.1 (the latest version, AFAIK) and you are now allowed to select which account will be sending a composed message. The compose window has a combo box which lists all your accounts in it; if you set up a different SMTP server with each account you can use this to select which server it will be sent to. I've never used the function myself, but as far as I can tell, this should do you want you want to do.

Tried most of the graphical clients listed in the poll. Was using kamail but recently have been fed up with its quirky way of sending to a group. Going back to thunderbird. Not ideal but the best so far.

mail client
 

I like thunderbird. it is fairly stable and hasn't crashed on me in a while.

Did you include Sylpheed in that list? If so then I'm curious where you feel it fell short??

Kontact is the KDE groupware suite, it runs Kmail embedded (unless KMail is open in a seperate window, then it just transfurs focus to that window).

As a KMail user I'd like to know just what you mean by quirkyness, might just spare me embaressment :)

T-Bird. And it's getting better with each version.

I use kmail.

It easily integrates with the kontact.

It uses for me to "Getting Things Done".

Thunderbird for sure! Nothing comes even close.

Mail Client of the Year
 

Sylpheed for speed.

gotfw

Yes I did try sylpheed - a couple of years ago. Quick and handy application, don't remember why I dropped it but there must have been something I wasn't happy with...

LOL! I am torn between the two myself. I love Thunderbird, but I've been taking a long, hard look at Kmail.

A couple years is an eon in rapid development time. Suggest you take another look. It's come a long way baby.. ;) For example:


Dec. 23, 2006 - Latest stable version Sylpheed 2.3.0 has been released.

Feb. 01, 2007 - Sylpheed 2.4.0beta2 (development) has been released.

Feb. 07, 2007 - Sylpheed 2.4.0beta3 (development) has been released.

I just spent some time re-evaluating KDE and Gnome, and consequently KMail and Evolution, respectively, and plan to stick with Sylpheed. The one thing I miss is Sieve Script support, wh/KMail has but Sylpheed and Evolution do not. The lack thereof is not that big a deal though as I've been surviving with command line this long.. :)

I like Kmail because it integrate with Kontact, allows filters with pipes, and KDE integration is a plus, too. It could improve in a couple areas, but I prefer it.

Tortanick
Sorry not to answer earlier I missed your post.

With Kmail I could not work out how to create a list of emails under a single heading in the address book. Not an option as far as I could tell. When sending an email to a group of people, I was able to save and name the list of addresses I sent it to, but this option only seemed to come up when choosing who to send the email to - some button on the right hand end of the "to" field let me select who to send it to from emails listed in the address book. Holding down the control button and carefully picking through the long list of emails in the address book that were displayed.

I found that the saved list(s) would be there the next time I went through the "choose who to send to" procedure. Button to the right etc etc.

Could not find any way to access the saved group list directly from the KDE address book which Kmail uses (was it called Kaddressbook ?? something like that) or Kontact. Could not find any way to modify the saved group list. Ooops a wrong email address in there ... oh no I want to add Suzy to the list ... bother, Andy changed his email address ... well I will just have to create a new group list all over again by the same tedious process and call it ... ummm "party invites 43"

Get the picture? I call that quirky.

Rummaged about through the help files and clicked on everything I could think of but found no easy way of managing the group list.

With Thunderbird I can use the addressbook to create, edit and save a group list right there in the addressbook - handy feature, common sense really.

Mail Client
 

Started w/ Evolution but Kaddress is a much better PIM and Kmail integrates nicely, even with my gmail account so I can access when connected or dump mail into my laptop if I won't connect for a while. Kmail is my vote.
:newbie:

Yes, I was wondering exactly the same thing!

my vote goes for sylpheed ...

its the only one that i alsways stick to , probably my expectations are a bit limited in comparisions to other ... although i was once really surprised about it during one of those so-called upgrade to a newer version , its still the only one that i use ...


//but if all the above fail , seem that its the only thing that i could freely spelt correctly with ease ... ^_^


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Thunderbird got my vote.

Opera's client takes a little getting used to - like Opera itself - but it is very quick, reliable and efficient. Got my vote.

Thunderbird - it helped me convert my wife from Windows :)

thunderbird rocks! enuff said. any extra spamblocker 4 this? on windows, i use the spamihilator. any OSS alternatives, anybody?

I use Seamonkey Mail in Windows and plan to use it in linux as well.

Thunderbird always gets my choice
 

Thunderbird! Clean, elegant and extensible. That, and I can run it on Windows too, for OS-to-OS consistency.

Kmail always seemed awkward and overly complicated. I don't like the design. I'd take Evolution over Kmail, I think.

Bayesian spam filter
Can also understand classifications by server-based filters such as SpamAssassin
Quick search - "virtual folders"
it's Mozilla Thunderbird guys

I has to try 3 different ones in less than one month. I was liking kmail because of its kde integration but got stuck with a bug; so I started using TB, didnt like it from the beginning, not light enough, I stopped using it because the open option didnt work for pdf attachments. Now im using claws, its fast and easy to use, Ill probably stay with it, only problem with it is that it freezes when I try to load the clamav plugin.

About the ClamAV plugin and Claws Mail - this is caused by a bug in libclamav where loading the signature database was really slow. It has since been fixed, so your remedy is to upgrade ClamAV to the latest version, 0.91.2 regains the speed it had before.

regards

Paul

I voted for Claws. It's fast and light, has no problem with Gmail that I've come across, secure (no html message gets loaded without the users say so and images are likewise subject to user discretion) and it works with the rather odd choice of browser I have installed (32 bit Swiftweasel on a 64 bit machine).