[Techtalk] Linux mail clients?

[Anne Wainwright]

Hello, Carla,

As a refugee from Pegasus Mail I found a home with Sylpheed and then
Claws (basically the same) when I found that there was no real
equivalent to PM in the linux world. It does all that you need.

Attachments can be viewed easily, you can't send html but plugins will
let you view received html. It has basic template facilities,
you can create POP or IMAP or SMTP-only accounts. No database involved
for the address-book as far as I know (maybe XML). Does maildir with a
plugin.

My only complaint is that I sometimes lose all the plugins and have to
reinstall them over, no idea why that is.

Pity that Pegasus has never been ported to linux, I know people that
run it under Wine.

regards
Anne


On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:57:37 -0800
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
> 
>