[Bradford] Email client advice

[Nick Rhodes]

Hi

I find Thunderbird still the best for working with Google Mail/calendar.
Evolution does not seem as slick or quick (but way better than outlook !)
with GMail IMAP and its calendar not better/worse than Thunderbird's.

FYI there are 2 plugins for syncing contacts:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/6095 (which I have not
tried)
and
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/7307 (which I have
managed to do an initial sync successfully with)

Whilst searching for the link for the above I came across:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/6381 (which I have not
tried).

I use IMAP and use a combination of the following for my settings:

http://lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/turn-thunderbird-into-the-ultimate-gmail-imap-client-314574.php
and
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892 (noting the
additional steps).

For GPG I use Enigmail:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/71
I have successfully configured this and sent test emails with it.

On top of this I have a rule in thunderbird to move any message that is NOT
unread and older than 30 days to the archive to keep the size of my inbox
reasonable (which helps performance) and does not make it too painful to be
able to download the inbox for off line use.


I hope this information is a help.

Cheers, Nick



2008/12/16 Wayne Hanley <wayney at gmail.com>

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> I've been thinking for a while I should use a desktop mail client so I
> can work when I don't have a Internet connection available to me,
> granted this is not that often but still it would be  fairly
> desirable to have a local copy of at least the majority of my emails.
>
> I'm a fairly heavy Google Apps user and use the (several public and
> private)Google Cals and Google Contacts to basically manage my life,
> so integrating with those is pretty much required.  Also
> something that plays nicely with gpg is would be nice as well.
> So my choices thus far seem to be evolution and thunderbird.
> I've used thunderbird in the past and though it was good it never
> really struck me as something utterly fantastic.  With a couple
> of plugins it does pretty much what I want (contacts syncing though ?)
> but I am wondering should I give evolution another go?  The last
> time I tried it found it to be very unstable and somewhat slow, but
> the level of desktop intergration to myself as a Ubuntu user is
> appealing.
>
> Can anyone give me any advice on this?  Maybe alternate clients
> that might meet my requirements or any words of wisdom/caution from
> users of either of those too apps?  I don't want to move away
> from gmail so I will be using imap to grab my mail but the other tools
> they offer are equally important.
>
> Cheers
> Wayne
>
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