email clients....

[jonathansblog]

Hi All

Ive been through all the email clients I can find, and they all suck.

I'm a long time linux user (started way back in 1999) and Ive yet to see a decent linux email client

Ive tried the major ones:
thunderbird (gets too slow when you receive > 100 mails a day)
evolution (clunky and slow)
kmail (used to be fantastic in the days of ppp connections and kde2)

but there are a couple of things that Ive noticed from the mac world - email on the mac is fantastic: sparrow and airmail are great, even apples mail.app is great.

there is a little hope: geary looks promising, but its too new right now.
opera are going to release a standalone linux mail client and inky are set to release one too!

what email clients do you use and what bugs you about them?? (webmail doesnt count)

 

[Codypy1]

I personally don't like using email clients.

But whoa a hundred emails a day? Is it all spam?

 

[jonathansblog]

lol, nope, Im a web developer, I can get 40 or so mails from a single client in one day and we have 200+ clients to deal with :|

 

[SLW210]

Yea, I prefer not to use a client right now.

I did have a look at Tbird, but didn't care much for it.

Might give CLAWS a look, if I think I want a client.

 

[Rob]

I'm going to be no help either.. i'm a gmail / webmail guy :/

 

[MikeyD]

MUTT!
Actually I have no idea similar to Rob I'm a webmail user, but I've heard good things about the command line mail clients (particularly mutt) but I can't give you any personal experience and I'm sure being a CLI client it isn't as pretty.
If I was getting 100+ emails a day though my preferred client would be none.

 

[cm1967]

I've been using Claws for quite some time and really like it. It's very quick.

 

[ryanvade]

MUTT.

Very nice, but does not support HTML emails nicely. It will display them in a Text version.

I won't exactly be much help either. I am using Thunderbird in Unity/Gnome environments and Kmail in KDE.