On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 16:02, Expert User wrote: > Use Mozilla Mail. It has many new features and is now very stable. > Of all the Xwindows based mail clients I have used I liked mozilla the > most. The best thing I like about mozilla mail is the quick search > feature. This comes in very handy when you have 1000+ mails in your > inbox and want to find one quick. Just enter some keyword in the quick > search bar and as you type it shortens the list to matching mails. Very > useful. > I have tried KMail, Evolution, Sylphyd (spell?). I have heard that KMail > now supports IMAP well but have not tried KMail in a long time. > Also mozilla may be very slow if you have an older machine. My > experience with mozilla is on very fast machines (1.2GHz P3 laptop, 2.4 > & 2.2 GHz P4 desktops), so your mileage may vary. I've been around the houses with IMAP clients, and basically have had a go with all of the popular ones. Here's my quick'n'dirty summary: Sylpheed-claws : Buggy as all hell, but the debug window is astoundingly useful. Not fast. Reasonable interface. I only installed it to get the debug window when I was having some problems with an IMAP server. Mozilla Mail: Good. Reasonably fast, decent filters, full-featured but carries the weight of Mozilla's UI with it. Still, with the Classic skin it's a good MUA for people familiar with Netscape Mail. Nice LDAP-auto-lookup support, if you're into that sort of thing. Netscape Mail: Also good, and actually a much better MUA than you'd expect given the hideous cruftiness of Navigator. Arguably the most mature graphical mail client on UNIX. KMail: The version of KMail in KDE3 is vastly improved over the one that shipped with KDE2. The interface isn't really to my taste, but that's a personal thing. However, KMail has one very deadly flaw when it comes to IMAP - rules can't use IMAP folders. This, for me, is a showstopper. Ximian Evolution: I'm currently very much in love with Evolution. I do all my mail with this now. Aw heck, here's my eulogy: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/XimianEvolution Yes, it's really THAT good. Balsa: Probably the most appealing interface I've ever used, but in the version I used the terrible stability led to an overall very unhappy experience. Summary: Your choices for real work boil down to Mozilla Mail, Netscape Mail, or Evolution. Less demanding users may find some benefit in KMail or Sylpheed. Peter. -- Peter Whysall peter.whysall@ntlworld.moc The TLD in my email address is sdrawkcab. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 sid -- kernel 2.4.18
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