Any GUI IMAP clients that don't suck?

shaurz · 2014-01-29 16:26:34

Currently I am using Thunderbird which is OK but has an annoying bug which causes it to keep open too many connections to the mail server and then I have to close it down or wait for it to time out before it will do anything.

I used to use KMail but it was dog slow on IMAP the last time I used it.

Evolution is bleghhh. Geary looks like it might be OK. The others look like they were last updated in the mid 90s.

What do other people use? I'm not interested in console-based clients (even though those are probably the fastest). Are there any others that use Qt instead of GTK?

drcouzelis · 2014-01-29 17:59:42

shaurz wrote:

Evolution is bleghhh. Geary looks like it might be OK. The others look like they were last updated in the mid 90s.

I think you're going to need to be a little more technical in your requirements besides "OK", "mid 90s" and "bleghhh".

...but I'm not sure what the point is. You can read the list of GUI email clients here and just try them out yourself. Should take about 30 minutes.

EDIT: There was a related discussion not too long ago: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=171989

Last edited by drcouzelis (2014-01-29 18:04:57)

shaurz · 2014-01-29 18:23:10

That's a pretty good wiki page you linked to there that I didn't know about. Actually I like the look of Trojita which never came up when I searched for "linux email clients" on Google.

windows_me · 2014-01-29 21:13:09

I had luck with Opera's built-in IMAP client a few years ago on both Linux and WIndows, but haven't used Opera in a while. It really depends on what you're looking for from an IMAP client though.

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Any GUI IMAP clients that don't suck?

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Re: Any GUI IMAP clients that don't suck?

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