[Ubuntu Chicago] Best Email Client?

[Montel Edwards]

That's not sad, it's funny.

But you can run Microsoft Office that has Outlook in it through WINE.
(i've tried it on MS office 2003 and 2007)

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Tim Burke <tb at tim-burke.net> wrote:
> 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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