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nightfrost

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-04-16

Posts: 647

moving from thunderbird to [suggestion?]

OK; so I'm finally having beagle up and running, but it doesn't index my emails since there's no support for thunderbird (at least yet). Does anyone feel like suggesting an email client, (and perhaps how a moveover is done bestly ) ?

Cheers!

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: moving from thunderbird to [suggestion?]

sylpheed and evolution are pretty good. I could never get evolution to work on my box so i always used sylpheed, plus it's lightweight.

Stinky

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From: The Colony, TX

Registered: 2004-05-28

Posts: 187

Re: moving from thunderbird to [suggestion?]

I tried Kmail, Thunderbird, Sylpheed Claws, and Evolution.  Finally stuck with Evolution.  It's actually faster than Kmail and Thunderbird on my box.  Sylpheed is faster/lighter weight but I just didn't like the "feel" of it.  Not sure why.  I like Evolution though.

agilyben

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Registered: 2005-08-22

Posts: 31

Re: moving from thunderbird to [suggestion?]

I can't seem to leave my Thunderbird.  ;-)  With all of the Extensions, I can have it do just about anything I want.

I've been running a couple others kinda in parallel to see if I can move away from TB at some point.  I tried Sylpheed and Sylpheed-Claws but seem to prefer Evolution or Kmail as the alternative. 

My main reason for testing other options besides TB has been palm integration.  I keep hopeing that Mozilla will get SunBird developed a little better and integrate Palm in it at some point.

My wife likes Kmail/Kontact.  She used ThunderBird for quite a while and then tried Evolution, but she's finally settled on Kmail.

As to the best way to migrate to a different client:  I just export everything from ThunderBird and then import into the others.

smoon

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Registered: 2005-08-22

Posts: 468

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Re: moving from thunderbird to [suggestion?]

I tried Kmail, Thunderbird, Sylpheed Claws, and Evolution.  Finally stuck with Evolution.  It's actually faster than Kmail and Thunderbird on my box.  Sylpheed is faster/lighter weight but I just didn't like the "feel" of it.  Not sure why.  I like Evolution though.

Same here. But I really like Mutt as well, the only reason I'm using Evolution instead of Mutt is Mutt's awful IMAP support.

shadowhand

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From: MN, USA

Registered: 2004-02-19

Posts: 1,142

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Re: moving from thunderbird to [suggestion?]

I use Sylpheed-gtk2. It works, it's simple, it's lightweight, and there are no nasty Gnome dependancies.

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nightfrost

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-04-16

Posts: 647

Re: moving from thunderbird to [suggestion?]

Thanks for all your suggestions, guys. Does beagle index sylpheed email?

neri

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From: Victoria, Canada

Registered: 2003-05-04

Posts: 553

Re: moving from thunderbird to [suggestion?]

Thanks for all your suggestions, guys. Does beagle index sylpheed email?

beagle indexes any textfile on your box. MH mailbaxes(that's what sylpheed uses) are numbered textfiles in a directory.
Bottomline: yes
BUT, beagle will tell you: "blah" found in /path/to/sub/mail/box/231
so you will have to make sylpheed displaying the MH mailnumber, which can be done from the settings(it's not the default iirc)

-neri

nightfrost

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-04-16

Posts: 647

Re: moving from thunderbird to [suggestion?]

alright, thanks. I'll probably try sylpheed.

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: moving from thunderbird to [suggestion?]

alright, thanks. I'll probably try sylpheed.

good choice. I just switched back to sylpheed and it been updated since I last used it, very nice. I also noticed it uses half the memory as thunderbird, very,very nice.