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I am wondering what other Debian Users recommend for an email client
program. First, let me state the needs of our company. We are currently very MS based at present. The goal has been set to slowly move
over to Linux. Debian has been chosen,
as it is the most stable that I am aware of. Of course, I don’t know a hell of a lot yet. First, I will have to settle many issues before moving any clients over,
although I actually have 1 client on a Linux box and I too try to use Linux
most of the time. People here are, of course, used to Outlook. And I have to say that I find that it works very well. I don’t think we have ever had any
problems with it. We have Exchange
server problems, but no client problems. Therefore, clients will be expecting the same quality –
no problems. I have tried out a number of email client programs, but am not satisfied
by any one of them. I have tried
out, KMail, Evolution, Netscape and Mozilla, oh and the email client program
with StarOffice. Each one has
something good about it, but none of them are as good as Outlook. One of the big problems might be the
fact that I don’t know how to configure them, of course. One of the big problems is that people will need to read and send mail
in English and Russian. I’m trying
to recall, but I don’t think I could get StarOffice and KMail to permit
Russian. Actually I could write in
Russian in KMail provided I opened a letter that was already in Russian and
composed my letter in that letter.
Understand? Evolution and Mozilla basically crash all the time on me. Is there really any difference between
Mozilla and Netscape? I liked the
fact however that I was able to convert all of my Outlook folders to
Mozilla. This will be of critical
importance as well. Finally, I couldn’t figure out how to get any of the programs to encrypt
passwords for logging in to our Exchange server – perhaps this is impossible
consider different technologies?
Eventually, however, I would like to shut the Exchange server down, but
that’s not in the planning yet. So, I’m what other programs people use and find to be very good. I haven’t tried Pine, but I don’t think
I could get our users to go over to a non-GUI program. Thanks. Curtis |