[Techtalk] Linux mail clients?

[Carla Schroder]

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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