e-mail and newsreaders

Completely Clueless · 06-28-2013, 09:46 AM

Hi gang,

What are the current frontrunners in terms of fully-featured Usenet threaded newsreaders and email clients for the Linux platform? I normally defer to the Members' Choice Awards for such recommendations, but there don't seem to be any such categories any more...

Thanks,

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JWJones · 06-28-2013, 09:53 AM

Perhaps not the best, but Thunderbird works for me on both counts.

Completely Clueless · 06-28-2013, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by JWJones

Perhaps not the best, but Thunderbird works for me on both counts.

Well, that's good to know, since I used t'bird back in the day I'm still vaguely familiar enough with it not to struggle (hopefully!)

yooy · 06-28-2013, 11:12 AM

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Perhaps not the best, but Thunderbird works for me on both counts.

my mom runs thunderbird but i would recommend her web based gmail instead (gmail in browser)

newsreader? i use liferea for rss feeds if it's that what you meant.

JWJones · 06-28-2013, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by yooy

newsreader? i use liferea for rss feeds if it's that what you meant.

Not RSS, but Usenet.

szboardstretcher · 06-28-2013, 01:20 PM

Here is a list of newsreaders at wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders

Here is the wikipedia article for comparisons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...et_newsreaders

frankbell · 06-28-2013, 08:56 PM

I am quite happy with Pan for binary newsgroups and the Opera browser for text newsgroups.

Opera also has very nice built-in mail and RSS clients.

I find Thunderbird kind of clunky, but I really like Sylpheed and Claws-Mail. I dislike Kmail because I find Akonadi annoying, and Evolution needs to be put out of its misery.

Just my two cents.