Pqluglist- What e-mail client do you use?

[Parksville-Qualicum Linux Users group mail list]

Actually, I do use gmail. I've had an account since back when you had to
be sponsored. It's the address I'll use for anything I think might be
spammy, or that I think I'd like to get rid of some day. It blends in
nicely with my little iPod, and I can access it from any computer. It
also works well with Picasa, allowing me through my gmail account to
share photo albums with people, and enabling me to show certain photos
to people from any computer I happen to have on hand anywhere. How much
I like Google scares me sometimes.
I do like to have a more traditional mail account around because I
haven't really trusted "the cloud" to keep everything safe (I may come
around in the future).
So far, I'm liking Evolution, and I intend to give it a good go, as you
would any application, in order to judge it properly on its merits or
lack of merits.

DonL



On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 20:28 -0700, Parksville-Qualicum Linux Users group
mail list wrote:
> Properly configured, Thunderbird is fantastic. IMAP is substantially 
> better than POP3, as it allows syncing of actions across multiple 
> systems, so that your email isn't tied to any one computer.
> I tried Evolution for a while, but just couldn't stick to it. 
> Thunderbird offers a more robust interface, and is much more familiar. I 
> had wanted to use Evolution for its integration with Ubuntu, but it just 
> doesn't provide what I need.
> Failing that, the GMail interface is quite nice, but does not allow you 
> to store your email offline... yet. I suspect that once HTML5 becomes a 
> bit more well-supported, GMail will offer offline capabilities, storing 
> a certain number of emails in local storage, and your contacts in the 
> built-in database.
> 
> --Justin
> 
> On 10-07-08 06:44 PM, Parksville-Qualicum Linux Users group mail list 
> wrote:
> > Back in the day I hated Evolution - too big, bulky and too MS-like. So I
> > started using Thunderbird, and I loved it until now. The version that
> > ships with Ubuntu 10.04 has been a nightmare for me. They've changed
> > from POP3 to IMAP, and unbeknownst to me, didn't dump the messages off
> > the server when I downloaded them. Apparently there's a way of deleting
> > entities and starting over as POP3, but I didn't feel like doing the
> > work. So I tried Claws for a while. It was simple (too simple, really)
> > and I couldn't for the life of me get the spam filtering to work.
> > Don't hit me. I installed the default Evolution. I know. Mono and all
> > that, but it seems to have matured to the point that it looks good and
> > works. I still have to train it with junk mail, but so far so good. I
> > must say e-mails sent from Outlook and Express look more like they were
> > intended.
> > DonL
> >
> >
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