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Registered: 2004-05-25

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Mail clients, which do you use?

Just curious what mail clients people use. I am always interested in improving my workflow.

Some of my friends are 100% gmail. That is all they use.
Others use gmail when they are out and about, but use a desktop mail app when they are at home (fetch via pop).

I tend to use a desktop client (claws), and crappy ol' squirrelmail (from my isp) when I dont have my laptop. I have considered going gmail, but I cant bring myself to do it. I have a gmail account, but I mostly use it for garbage...

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pjeremy

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 66

Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

Opera's built-in mail client

klixon

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From: Nederland

Registered: 2007-01-17

Posts: 525

Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

gmail's not very friendly if you want to send or recieve patches as it converts tabs to spaces...

When i get my reinstall done i think i'm going to try out mutt-ng...

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STiAT

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From: Vienna, Austria

Registered: 2004-12-23

Posts: 606

Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

KMail.
GMail if i want to send private things at work .

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Acid7711

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2006-08-18

Posts: 300

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Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

I've been using KMail for quite some time now. It's not the best I've used, but the systray feature works for me. I've wanted to find something else that has it's same features though....

bones

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From: Brisbane

Registered: 2006-03-24

Posts: 322

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Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

Kmail for friends and family
2 Gmail accounts. 1 for work related use and the other for signing up to websites that need registration

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chicha

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From: France

Registered: 2007-04-20

Posts: 271

Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

I use Gmail most of the time.
Sometimes I use Kmail within some Kde components, such Digikam, but to send mail only (no pop retrieval).

I would really like that Gmail supports IMAP protocol : so that I am able to use Kmail at home more often (I like Kmail and its integration to konqueror).

phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

Gmail 75% of the time - and yes text formatting is a pain.
I also pull gmail down to my desktop box (with fdm, woo!) and use mutt-ng there

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Damnshock

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From: Barcelona

Registered: 2006-09-13

Posts: 414

Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

I use Kmail on my laptop with various gmail accounts (pop), 2 imap and 2 other pop3 accounts.

And I'd love to see imap support on gmail :'(

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Registered: 2006-11-26

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Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

Evolution . I can't help it, over all I'm pretty allergic to bloat, but I find the organiser concept marvelous... Organiser, calendar, mail etc. all in one app - it's what I need .

Evolution pulls in 2 active Gmail accounts, one account from my ISP, and it used to do a Yahoo! and Hotmail account too, but I got pretty sick of them .

*Borromini is a mail account whore

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

Gmail 75% of the time - and yes text formatting is a pain.
I also pull gmail down to my desktop box (with fdm, woo!) and use mutt-ng there

have you got your dotfiles up anywhere? I've been itching to get a desktop client working as well as gmail, but last time i tried i had a nasty time working out how to sort mailing lists and switch between different mboxes/maildirs in mutt quickly...

James

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chaosgeisterchen

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From: Kefermarkt, Upper Austria

Registered: 2006-11-20

Posts: 550

Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

Gmail adress over Kontact | KMail.

Works flawlessly.

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sH

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From: Braunschweig, Germany

Registered: 2007-05-02

Posts: 145

Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

I tried out numerous applications. But I always come back to Thunderbird. I don't have really special things I like to do with my mail-clients, so Thunderbird does everything I need.

It has GnuPG-Enigmail support, with automatic download of missing keys, a really good Spam filter.
And most of all I really like that it stores accounts, mails and even extensions in one folder.

With an initial "thunderbird -ProfileManager" I can use the same mail-folder from different Computers or Distros/BSs and have all my data there.
I really like KMail but the settings and mails are too cluttered, to really have it portable or distributed.

Downsides:
-It integrates badly with KDE and GNOME, has ugly Win95-ish interface, where it shows through that it's not really good GTK
-It loads and repaints slowly

shamrok

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From: Poland, Kraków

Registered: 2006-02-20

Posts: 61

Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

Kmail in work, gmail for private stuff.

bboozzoo

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-08-01

Posts: 125

Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

sylpheed claws aka claws-mail at home, evolution at work

whompus

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From: Durham. UK

Registered: 2005-08-09

Posts: 256

Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

Claws-Mail for me as well.

Cagnulein

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From: Modena, Italy

Registered: 2006-04-03

Posts: 260

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Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

Opera's built-in mail client

me too

mutt sometimes, when i check the mail at work through ssh

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Husio

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From: Europe

Registered: 2005-12-04

Posts: 359

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Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

Gmail, becouse I can use it anywhere I whant. Don't need to install anything except links

PJ

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-10-11

Posts: 602

Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

Claws mail 99% of the time.
I have a GMail account, but I hardly ever use it. When I do use it, it's throught the webinterface.

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judfilm

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Registered: 2004-02-12

Posts: 229

Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

Claws Mail

eyolf

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From: Copenhagen

Registered: 2005-11-29

Posts: 339

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Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

Kmail until recently, but I've moved to mutt, and I'm not looking back. It takes some effort to set it up, but once everything's in place (including getmail, procmail, mairix, muttprint, etc.), it's better than any solution I've tried so far. AND I've learned loads about mail handling in the process. Highly recommended.

hussam

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Registered: 2006-03-26

Posts: 572

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Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

I use evolution to download both my gmail and university emails.

WhiteMagic

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Registered: 2007-03-01

Posts: 85

Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

Using Thunderbird, but trying out mutt and consider switching over.

Bison

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From: Jacksonville, FL

Registered: 2006-04-12

Posts: 158

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Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

I usually use roundcube mail since i don't do much emailing, and sometimes mutt or squirrelmail

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ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: Mail clients, which do you use?

Thunderbird. I need crazy IMAP support for zillions of public folders. (Hey, Cyrus-IMAP is developed in-house here at CMU, how could we not vastly overuse it?)

I don't really like Thunderbird that much, though. It's somehow "annoying" in a hard-to-define way.

Honestly, I usually just read mail on one of my Macs, where I use Apple's Mail.app.