[Ubuntu Chicago] Best Email Client?

Tim Burke tb at tim-burke.net
Sun Jan 10 01:38:49 GMT 2010


Is it sad that I run a VM of Windows XP on my Ubuntu box just to use
Outlook? I've found that it's just a far superior email client to just
about all of the others...

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Montel Edwards <montel at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> Thanks Jim,
> I've decided though to just install CheckGMail and use the plain ol'
> Googlemail interface, with FireGPG enabled.
>
> Unless I find something better :]
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Jim Campbell <jwcampbell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Montel,
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Montel Edwards <montel at member.fsf.org>
>> 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
>>>
>>
>> Nixternal (and maybe a few others in the loco) use mutt.  I have not used it
>> myself, but it is terminal-based, and seems very powerful.  Of course, it
>> would seem harder to configure.
>> After that, I would probably suggest thunderbird 3.0.  Thunderbird 3.0 is
>> available via the mozilla-daily ppa for Ubuntu 9.10.  I'm not sure if
>> thunderbird 3.0 is or will be made available via the karmic-backports
>> repository.
>> Jim
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