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Re: Recommend an email program for the debian-user-digest?



On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 09:57 -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote:
> Another coomon mail agent to try is evolution, especially if you are a
> fan of GNOME, since it sports heavy integration with the desktop, and is
> the preferred agent for GNOME.
> 
> It's very Outlookish, if you like that sort of thing.  It has several
> advantages, including support for PGP/GPG, HTML, MIME and other common
> email standards.  
> 
> Unlike some of the other mail programs mentioned thus far, it also
> supports IMAP (including v4) and even *cringe* Microsoft Exchange
> servers. (Sorry fellas.)
> 
> It also supports message threading views, etc.
> 
> It's highly maintained, and development is handled by the GNOME
> Foundation and Novell.  
> 
> Thunderbird's spam handling is better out of the box, but you can setup
> a filter to tie directly into SpamAssassin and take care of that.

Evolution now comes with spam-handling facilities - no need to set up
your own filters any more.

M



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