[Ubuntu Chicago] Best Email Client?

[Tim Burke]

That is true. I just like running it in a VM since it's more
convenient. I've gotta have an XP VM anyways -- need it for Photoshop,
which doesn't run very well (if at all) in WINE.

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Montel Edwards <montel at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> 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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