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.
On Wednesday 02 January 2008, 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.
KMail! Because it's Qt-based and works... :o
My parents use Thunderbird and it has lost emails on them!
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.
I use mutt 99% of the time. I ssh into my home box from anywhere and run mutt. The other 1% of the time I use webmail (squirrelmail or gmail). I do POP my gmail so most of the time I read it in mutt. I get thousands of messages per day and GUI and web clients tend to choke on the amount of mail I get (and keep - I rarely delete anything). Mutt's able to handle my giant mail archive and that's the primary reason I use it.
On Wed, January 2, 2008 16:05, Kyle Sexton wrote:
What mail client are people using in Linux nowadays?
I generally use kmail, because it works the way I expect it to (including a couple of features I asked for and got).
I run fetchmail on my firewall to aggregate several accounts onto my ancient NT4/Exchange 5.5 server - a legacy from a couple jobs and too many years ago.
I run a Mandriva 2007 webserver which has squirrelmail on it for remote access. The imap interface between Ex. and Squirrel is slow with something like 30,000 unread messages scattered over a bunch of folders, but it's usable.
When in console, I tend to use Pine. I never did get the hang of mutt's configuration file, and I can make Pine do pop, imap, and/or nntp.
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
I run a Mandriva 2007 webserver which has squirrelmail on it for remote access. The imap interface between Ex. and Squirrel is slow with something like 30,000 unread messages scattered over a bunch of folders, but it's usable.
I think you're the second person to mention squirrelmail for web access. You should take a look at Round Cube if you haven't already. It's an IMAP web client and the interface is really slick. I prefer it to squirrelmail.
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.
If they want to complain about running thunderbird while you run something else, fix it for them....
ssh root@theirbox rm -rf /home/baduser/.thunderbird
They should thank you for this too as you'll be giving them more free space!
On Jan 3, 2008 2:09 PM, Bradley Hook bhook@kssb.net wrote:
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.
Kclug mailing list Kclug@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
On 1/2/08, Kyle Sexton ks@mocker.org 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!
Solidly in the Google Mail camp. I use their Google Apps for Your Domain service to keep my domain name but use the GMail interface. I use their jabber service, calendar, docs, etc. And while there is that ever-present privacy concern, my contract (yes, it's $50 per year for hosting) with them spells out their legal obligations and Google has thus far said that they will not respond to government fishing expedition requests as they consider them illegal.
I have "jasonclinton.com" and my partner has "brandonward.us". We can share calendars, docs, jabber federation between our domains.
It's very nice.
I blogged a series of articles about the sorry state of Linux GUI email clients some time ago [1]; it's gotten quite a few hits. Since I blogged, KMail has become unmaintained and is generally considered dead until such time as new warm bodies show up to maintain it. Evolution and Thunderbird are still slowly being updated but have a number of critical bugs.
On Thursday 10 January 2008, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
Solidly in the Google Mail camp. I use their Google Apps for Your Domain service to keep my domain name but use the GMail interface. I use their jabber service, calendar, docs, etc. And while there is that ever-present privacy concern, my contract (yes, it's $50 per year for hosting) with them spells out their legal obligations and Google has thus far said that they will not respond to government fishing expedition requests as they consider them illegal.
I have "jasonclinton.com" and my partner has "brandonward.us". We can share calendars, docs, jabber federation between our domains.
It's very nice.
But do you get to host your stuff on a server you have root on, or at least get direct unfiltered access to your spam filters and maildirs?
On 1/10/08, Luke -Jr luke@dashjr.org wrote:
But do you get to host your stuff on a server you have root on, or at least get direct unfiltered access to your spam filters and maildirs?
I hosted my own mail for 4 years. I absolutely *LOVE* that I do not have root or any control over the spam filters. They do a wonderful job and I'm glad I'm paying someone a modest $50/yr to take that insane amount of burden off of my hands.
As for maildirs, yes I have access to all my mail on GAFYD through an API or even POP/IMAP access. The web interface exposes about 98% of this. A third party offers a webified version of this (for a fee) for audit trails and that kind of "enterprisey" type thing.
On Thursday 10 January 2008, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
On 1/10/08, Luke -Jr luke@dashjr.org wrote:
But do you get to host your stuff on a server you have root on, or at least get direct unfiltered access to your spam filters and maildirs?
I hosted my own mail for 4 years. I absolutely *LOVE* that I do not have root or any control over the spam filters. They do a wonderful job and I'm glad I'm paying someone a modest $50/yr to take that insane amount of burden off of my hands.
I'm not arguing against managed hosting, but rather the fact that you CANNOT make changes even if you want to.
As for maildirs, yes I have access to all my mail on GAFYD through an API or even POP/IMAP access. The web interface exposes about 98% of this. A third party offers a webified version of this (for a fee) for audit trails and that kind of "enterprisey" type thing.
API/POP/IMAP is not direct access to the raw maildirs.
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