[xubuntu-users] What's a better gnome mail client than Thunderbird?

[Steve Litt]

On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 14:44:55 +0200
Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:


> I see. I fail to see how Thunderbird is unreliable (I don't seem to
> have any problems with it, unlike Evolution which crashed a lot here -
> and I had a couple of crashes with Claws too), but everyone can have
> their own experience with it.

For me, Thunderbird becomes so incredibly when run in conjunction with
large IMAP mailboxes, that for practical purposes it's unreliable. You
don't know whether it's hung or just going 1 mile per hour.

> Of course since people are using subjective terms to describe their
> experience ("better", "clumsy"...), it's difficult to assert what is
> *objectively* asked for ;-)  For me Thunderbird is less clumy for
> e-mail than Claws, for example (I still use Claws for newsgroups,
> though), so I'd have a hard time recommending Claws over Thunderbird.

Claws is quirky, no doubt about it. But operating in conjunction with a
large IMAP system of large mailboxes, I can't spare the time to use
Thunderbird as a daily thing. I reserve it for comparison when I have
problems with Claws.

SteveT

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