Subject: [ILUG] Testing some mail clients, which one do you prefer?

[Megaf]

On 24/10/10 15:37, Lisa Muir wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Megaf<mmegaf at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 24/10/10 12:49, keith wrote:
>>> i'm back to thunderbird now....  after finally sorting out the
>>> "open-link-in-chromium" issue. did play with calws/sylpheed and epiphany for
>>> a while. also changed to using gmail as an enabler for my otherwise non-imap
>>> IOL account.
>>>
>>> k.
>> I'm really enjoying Thunderbird, using it with gmail IMAP and Yahoo IE Pop3.
>> You know, Evolution is not as good as it could be...
> Ditto for Thunderbird, there are tons of things that need improving in
> that. I find that half the times I try to expand a folder tree I end
> up clicking into the root folder of the folder tree, seems to be a UI
> spacing thing that I just never had with any other mua else its my new
> laptops touchpad thats doing it.
>
> I also hate thunderbirds folder storage format where it uses a single
> mbox file per folder with a hard folder size limit which breaks the
> mbox if you reach the limit forcing you to empty, delete and recreate
> the folder if you want to use it, happens mostly with sent and inbox
> for users, royal pain in the ass. I do note though that they're
> working on maildir storage for local folders which will resolve the
> issue.
>
> My other major gripe with thunderbird is that when using it for IMAP
> it gives no visual feedback as to which folders are caching and which
> are not caching and which are pulling headers only, thats a huge
> usability drawback.
>
> If you use server side filtering of messages its often difficult to
> notice new mail that hasn't hit your imap inbox folder.
>
> Thats why I got myself a debian KDE install and use kmail. :-)
>
> Lisa.
Hm, and are you happy with kmail? I have never used it. Are you using 
KDE 3.x or KDE 4.x?