[CS-FSLUG] QOTW: Mail Clients

Fred Miller fmiller at lightlink.com
Mon Oct 25 21:27:02 CDT 2004


On Monday October 25 2004 10:46 am, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> Here is the question of the week:
>
>         What is your favorite Open Source e-mail client and why?
>
> Personally, I'm partial to Evolution. I have not tried Evolution 2.0
> yet, but I find Evolution 1.4.x much faster than other clients with the
> large quantities of e-mail I deal with and features such as Virtual
> Folders makes it easy to managed e-mail. The built in calendaring is
> excellent too.
>
> For many people these days, I've been recommending Thunderbird since it
> seems to have a bit better design for just e-mail, but Evolution still
> does some stuff I like that even Thunderbird does not offer (such as
> the Virtual Folders).

Thunderbird is much slower than KMail, and doesn't really offer much more in 
features. KMail is VERY stable, so is my choice.

Fred

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