Best E-Mail Client

[Bazooka Joe]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> John K Masters wrote:
>
>> On 16:12 Sat 16 Aug     , Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> Hal Burgiss wrote:
>>>
>>> > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 08:21:27PM -0400, David McNally wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I'm looking for an email client that does everything that Microsoft
>>> >> Outlook does, and just as well (or better)
>>> >
>>> > Best email client? That might be a job for mutt, which, as they say,
>>> > sucks, but sucks less.
>>>
>>> LOL.  But I think it fails on the primary requirement - doing everything
>>> MS Outlook does.
>>
>> Not true. It should be possible to write a macro for mutt that saves all
>> messages to a single file in a format totally unreadable by any other
>> mail app. Combine that with a carte blanche invitation to open any virus
>> contaminated mail and disallow any user configuration beyond the basics
>> and you have 99% of Outlook functionality.
>>
> LOL.  But not really true.  Outlook is horrible, but it doesn't open viruses
> on my machines (in fact, it's far more likely to bar access to important
> files), and there's a huge capacity for user configuration - though it's
> extremely obscure.


I too have found short comings w/ Outlook mainly w/ their limited IMAP support.

Evolution is good but on Ubuntu it has a 2 gig mailbox size limit -
which is a deal breaker for me.

TBird w/ lightning addon is the best choice in my opinion

-bazooka