[Ubuntu Chicago] Best Email Client?

[Drew Cross]

Richard JOHNSON wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 08:03:44PM -0600, Montel Edwards wrote:
>   
>> Good evening everyone,
>>  I've been looking for a good new email client for a while to use as
>> default, and I thought that there would be no better place than a
>> mailing list!
>>
>> Here are a couple of things that i'm looking for:
>>
>> 1) Must NOT take up a lot of system resources ( I sold my Sun
>> Workstation, so all I have now is my netbook)
>> 2) Must load quicky
>> 3) Easy GPG Support
>> 4) IMAP Support
>>     
>
> Mutt with OfflineIMAP. It is of course text based. You can actually use
> Mutt without OfflineIMAP in an IMAP environment. Hardly any system
> resources used. On another note, I am hearing some good things about
> Thunderbird, and I am hearing this from KDE developers as well.
>
>   
+1 on Thunderbird, I'm using Thunderbird now and I really like it.