[CS-FSLUG] IMAP email software
Jonathan E. Brickman
jeb at joshuacorps.org
Sun Jan 4 21:48:58 CST 2009
>> 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.
>>
>
> T-Bird is better than "LookOut" and "LookOut Express" from MickySoft as
> well. So far, it can't be beat in the Linux world, IMHO.
>
> Fred
>
I think so too. I tested out KMail yesterday, and found that when I
tried to clean out an IMAP folder, it insisted on copying all of the
messages locally as the first step. Yecch. I also tried alpine again,
and remembered why IMAP was originally known as a terribly
resource-heavy protocol originally: alpine, like pine, doesn't cache
anything, and (shockingly) is slower today on my broadband than pine was
in 1994 over my prized 28.8 with Slackware.
I suppose I will try Evolution again, just to make the circle complete,
though Novell doesn't really seem to care much about a huge chunk of
both investment and potential market. I suppose it is really
Microsoft's investment in Novell making it happen that way.
J.E.B.
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