Alpine is a worthy successor to pine. Actually a fair bit better.

For speed of chomping through a large basket of mail in a user friendly manner, nothing beats the fetchmail / procmail / alpine pipeline.

And ooooh Looky! Alpine has this vast array of really cute ascii art busy widgets!

I've certainly enjoyed using Gnus in the past. I've also enjoyed using exmh, and when I want a flexible console Email tool, I use mutt. However, in recent years, I have found that I can use Seamonkey mail and news on multiple platforms. I find that the Seamonkey Internet Suite is just as effective, and in some ways, more so than the combination of Firefox and Thunderbird. I use Seamonkey in Web browsing mode for Webmail, and I use the Email client to pull in POP3 and IMAP4 mail, and I use the Email client to send most of my mail using the SMTP capabilities.

It scales well and it keeps getting consistently better. I plan to continue using it in 2009.

Mutt in text mode, Sylpheed in GUI mode. Been using Evolution last few months, trying to give Gnome the benefit of the doubt, but ultimately it sucks almost as much as Outlook. And therein lies its biggest flaw - trying to keep winblows/exchange converts happy....

Sylpheed on Puppy; Thunderbird primarily, but use Evolution as well.

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Claws Mail. it is light, integrates well in the XFCE/Gnome desktop, fewer dependencies than Sylpheed (as i remember). btw, i didn't use most of the programs here, i'll keep the poll as a reference for future "must try".

I installed this webmail application and it will definitely replace squirrelmail on my servers. Next year addition ??

Evolution... Has used almost all the evolved version

This is what I've found. It's not sufficient as an Outlook replacement, but it's too close to Outlook to be a good mail client.

Sylpheed and Mutt for me, too. With Sylpheed getting my vote 'cause I feel sympathy for it in the face of the amount of Claws users there seems to be.

Wow apparently nobody uses mail clients that run on emacs anymore.
I use Mew, which runs on emacs. I tried evolution a bit, but I found it a bit slow to start...
I like Mew mostly because it is very fast. Not only to read emails but also answering, or writing them. Reading an e-mail I press "a", and I'm answering it. Press "w" and I'm writing another. It has a very handy automatic created aliases list, multiple sessions, etc. I'm just very pleased with it.

Mutt, though I've used Thunderbird in the past.

lol. funny but i know the feeling, when in doubt - tend to choose the more unprivileged one. i think i used this in one of this year's polls.
on the other side, i don't blame the other guys, with a "the strong should survive" approach, both are normal and interesting to observe .
http://www.wikisocion.org/en/index.p...d_aristocratic

I prefer using online mail clients like hotmail or yahoo/google mail.

I tend to use Thunderbird more often than Evolution.

KMail, does everything I want in a e-mail client, only improvement I would like to see is a highlite, and right mouse click copy... I like the text only receive and send...

JR

Alpine, baby -- filtering, piping, sorting, color coding, automating -- and all crazy fast. Will also cook you breakfast and mow the lawn (via an extension).