Re: A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related
Since you're using KDE (IIRC), start with using KMail. If you should use
a MUA based on something else, but Qt, you might experience theme and
icon issues. Those issues can be solved, but then you need to install
more dependencies than you might want to install and you need to learn
more, than you want to learn at the beginning.
The most important to know about dependencies is that KDE is based on Qt
and much other software is based on GTK. GTK3 IMO has a special (bad)
status, very common is GTK2 too. There are rumors about GTK3 I won't
spread now and GTK2 is outdated.
I don't like Kmail, but regarding to dependencies, it _seems_ to be the
most reliable MUA.
All MUAs do their job, all MUAs have advantages and drawbacks. The
"philosophy" of Linux is self-responsibility, IOW you need to find out
yourself what's good for you.
You can use all of the mentioned MUAs.
Kmail, Evolution, Sylpheed-Claws, Thunderbird/Icedove and Opera, they
all are usable. Regarding to security there are other options, that are
independent of the used MUA, e.g. encryption.
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