[SC.LUG] Email Clients

[David Holden]

On Wednesday 08 August 2007, Simon Ward wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 11:36:13PM +0100, David Holden wrote:
> > I've used kontact/kmail for several year now and much prefer it to
> > evolution. Not least because it does not use a non standard mail folder
> > format, i.e. put an mbox file in your Mail directory and it will display
> > it as a folder in your client.
>
> That’s always nice. Evolution reads local mbox files to, and I liked
> that. It meant I could easily use procmail filters, and also use
> whichever of the local mailbox supporting MUAo took my fancy at the
> time.

Interesting, is this a recent feature of evolution. One of the main benefits 
to us using kmail is that we can put a soft link in a users local ~/Mail 
folder to various mbox files we keep around the system and it appears as a 
folder in kmail can this also be done with evolution? I though because it 
used its own mail database format this would not have been possible?


Cheers,

 Dave.


>
> > Thunderbird always seems to get good review. Although I've had problems
> > using it for its secure pop/imap but I may have just been unlucky.
>
> IMAP is complex, hard to implement correctly, and every mailer gets
> something wrong, or does something differently to the rest.
> Thunderbird’s implementation is by far the best out of those I’ve used
> recently. The support in kmail resulted in lost mail (though until a few
> months ago Thunderbird had an annoying habit of losing mail during
> filtering). Evolution just had trouble with connecting to an IMAP server
> with TLS support. I prefer to use offlineimap to synchronise to local
> maildirs—it’s a tool created specifically for working with IMAP, and
> does it fairly well.
>
> Simon



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