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View Poll Results: Which email client is best?
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Thunderbird
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Evolution
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03-22-2009, 03:10 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2009
Location: America
Distribution: Debian/Arch
Posts: 134
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Thunderbird or Evolution?
Which program do you prefer to get your mail and why?
Personally I loved Digsby on MS but until they get it ported t linux I guess I'm stuck with one of these... which should I pick?
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03-22-2009, 03:22 PM
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ReliaFree Maintainer
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Distribution: Slackware 14.2
Posts: 2,815
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Thunderbird. Just a personal preference like every answer in every poll comparing two or more applications that do, essentially, the same thing. I use Fluxbox and XFCE so I try to minimize the GNOME libraries and apps on my machine.
Last edited by weibullguy; 03-22-2009 at 06:31 PM.
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03-22-2009, 04:36 PM
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Member
Registered: May 2008
Distribution: funtoo/gentoo amd64 xwrt
Posts: 412
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indeed for the same reasons the poster above says. did you build wine, and try your MS app for nix?
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03-22-2009, 04:44 PM
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Registered: Aug 2004
Distribution: Fedora (KDE spin)
Posts: 226
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I had some problems with Evolution freezing (under Fedora, using the on-board ATI based graphics). Thunderbird has had no such problems.
I do prefer the filtering tool that Thunderbird uses, but that's just a personal preference.
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03-23-2009, 07:28 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Northeast Ohio
Distribution: linuxdebian
Posts: 7,249
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Thunderbird, I run it on both windows (work) and Linux machines.
Evolution has always seemed so bloated and heavy to me, reminds me of Outlook. I just want to send and receive email..
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03-23-2009, 07:33 AM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Germany
Distribution: Xubuntu, Ubuntu
Posts: 416
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Thunderbird, even on Ubuntu which comes with Evolution by default. Thunderbird is extensible, Evolution is too much like Outlook; and I don't need any of the additional functionality (calendar) anyway.
Robin
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03-23-2009, 08:52 AM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: The Netherlands
Distribution: Centos,Ubuntu,Mandriva,Suse11.1
Posts: 86
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If you need a fast and simple one, just to send and receive emails then is better to use Thunderbird, evolution as others say remind me with the time i used windows is similar to Outlook.
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03-23-2009, 09:44 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: N. E. England
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian
Posts: 16,298
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I am also with those that prefer Thunderbird. I also like how you can use extensions to customise its fuctionality. Evolution is a bit too heavy and I am not too keen on it.
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