Mail Client of the Year

jeremy · 01-07-2009, 01:06 PM

How do you read the LQ Community Bulletin?

--jeremy

taylor_venable · 01-07-2009, 10:16 PM

What, no mail(x)? Great for sending messages in a pinch!

rigacasey · 01-07-2009, 10:44 PM

My vote goes to Evolution Mail. From when I first tried it a couple of years ago it has greatly improved. Overall it has satified all my email needs!

Nylex · 01-08-2009, 02:40 AM

I don't think Pine and Alpine should be separate. They're pretty much the same! You have Emacs and XEmacs together in the text editor category, so why not the same here?

jeremy · 01-08-2009, 08:53 AM

pine will actually be completely removed next year, as it's no longer under development.

--jeremy

Piccolo_Pete · 01-09-2009, 11:13 AM

Evolution definitely. Myself coming from the Windows world using Outlook, Evolution definitely wins. Thunderbird, IMO, is alright. A little too minimal for my tastes.

Hitboxx · 01-09-2009, 03:07 PM

Evolution.

sycamorex · 01-09-2009, 03:56 PM

Evolution

mjjzf · 01-10-2009, 02:13 AM

Definitely Claws.

archtoad6 · 01-10-2009, 08:53 AM

I use CommuniGate (my ISP's webmail interface), awaiting their switch to SquirrelMail.

BTW, since SquirrelMail is a web-based e-mail application, is it really an e-mail client, & does it belong in this poll? Doesn't Gmail have an equal claim?
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see it (SquirrelMail) because I use none of the others regularly.

jeremy · 01-10-2009, 09:56 AM

The two webmail applications were added last year, due to overwhelming member demand. They differ from Gmail in that you can download them - they're applications. Gmail is a hosted service.

--jeremy

allend · 01-11-2009, 08:20 AM

Still using Thunderbird, but find myself using my ISP's browser application more and more as I can access it from anywhere.

richs-lxh · 01-11-2009, 07:40 PM

Claws is THE mail client. Lightweight, a doddle to configure, pgpinline encrypted messages, aaaaaand........ how do you backup claws mail? Yup just copy and paste the .claws directory and the .mailout dircetory and the ones in your /home dir to a USB pebdrive. Then you can paste them into the /home folder of ANY distro with claws and it will just work. No config, no messing and all your messages and addresses backed up. Claws rocks!!!.

Saptech · 01-11-2009, 10:59 PM

I hardly use a mail client much anymore and use web based mail, but I would say T-bird.

anticapitalista · 01-12-2009, 09:16 AM

claws. It is fast, light and fully featured.