[CS-FSLUG] IMAP email software

Stephen J. McCracken smccracken at hcjb.org.ec
Sun Jan 4 19:12:55 CST 2009


Jon Glass wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Jonathan E. Brickman
> <jeb at joshuacorps.org> wrote:
>> Anyone using IMAP for email?  Is Thunderbird the only reliable and
>> fully-functional (HTML editing and viewing, multiple accounts, etc.) email
>> application on Linux?  Every 3-6 months I tend to try KMail or Evolution or
>> something, but they have always disappointed.
>>
> If you hadn't thrown in the absolutely unreasonable html request, ;-)
> I would have recommended Sylpheed, but since you did......
> 
> ;-)
> 
> I'm trying to think of where Kmail fails over T-bird, and nothing
> comes to mind. What exactly don't you like about Kmail, other than it
> would be a KDE app in gnome or something like.

I can think of one thing.  Last I checked, the filtering offered in
Kmail doesn't allow you to move messages between folders on the server.
 The destination folder of a filtering rule only has local options.

sjm





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