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.
>