I use Thunderbird 95% of the time. While I know plenty of people that have lost email in Thunderbird, I personally have never experienced this. When I help these folks troubleshoot their problems, it has always been on Windows, and it is usually a misconfiguration (i.e., the thunderbird user profile was setup as administrator, and so the regular user didn't have the correct permissions for the mail folders).
The reason I use Thunderbird is primarily because I have to support users of several OSes (Windows, Mac, and Linux), and Thunderbird runs well on all of these platforms. I try to run what I make my users run so that I am comfortable and familiar with all of the features. It also makes it much harder for people to accuse me of being a hypocritical BOFH if I use the same things they do.
Periodically I use Gmail's web interface, and on rare occasions I log into my work email through SquirrelMail, and I am happy to use either when the need arises. I've recently played with eGroupWare for web mail, and it isn't too bad either (bit slow sometimes).
~Bradley
Kyle Sexton wrote:
What mail client are people using in Linux nowadays? Mutt, Gnus, Thunderbird, Pine, mail, kmail, evolution, sylpheed?
Post what you're using and why you think it's the best!
Me, I'm currently using Thunderbird, but I always make my way back to Gnus eventually.