[Bradford] Email client advice

[Wayne Hanley]

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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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