[Techtalk] Linux mail clients?

[Jennifer]

Why not use Thunderbird? It's fairly sane for me. I like having all my email
accounts in one place. I don't recall using via xforwarding though. And I
don't know how it handles templates.

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I'm finally giving up on KMail after loving it muchly for lo these many
> years. KDE4 drives me insane and the badness has infected KMail. I am very
> sad. It had many great features like very easy to create mail filters, even
> complex ones, boatloads of configuration options, handles multiple accounts
> and identities with ease, lots of one-key shortcuts, and all kinds of
> goodness.
>
> Now it is a bloaty slow pig that depends on Nepomuk and Akonadi. Way
> overkill for me-- I very much do not like when devs lose their minds and
> code the equivalent of a 1959 Cadillac. The '59 Caddy is known for having
> the biggest fins, the most chrome, and being possibly the most gaudy,
> uneconomical, sloppy-handling heaviest passenger car of all time. I just
> want a nice POP/IMAP mail client with a plain-text address book and that
> supports maildirs, and that doesn't need mondobytes of dependencies, a
> database backend, and squillions of processes. You know, like KMail used to
> be.
>
> I need something that supports templates, handles attachments sanely, and
> that runs nicely over SSH because I use ssh -X a lot. A nice clean readable
> interface, and a good importing tool. Icedove is hopeless; it only supports
> importing from Communicator 4.x. WTF people. (Though I should try opening a
> maildir in it.)
>
> I'm currently testing Icedove (Thunderbird for non-Debian users) and Balsa.
> No Evolution for me, I don't need a groupware client that drags in buttloads
> of junk I don't use.
>
>  I will give Trinity KDE a try when it's in distro repos. Any other
> suggestions? It seems like slim pickings. No I don't use Gmail and don't
> want to.
>
> best,
> Carla
>
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