Mail clients, which do you use?

ArchPad · 2007-05-18 19:37:21

Thunderbird. I used to use a bunch of online webmail clients, but I prefer to not have my email just sitting out there for anyone to look at. Thunderbird watches four addresses for me (1 personal, 1 work, 2 business).

Anders · 2007-05-19 00:49:13

Gmail! Long-time user. I use too many computers to be able to use a desktop client, because discussions I've read on one PC aren't flagged as read on another PC, which is kind of annoying.

Their Java (mobile) client is very nice too. That's the closest thing I have to a desktop client.

filenox · 2007-05-20 14:56:18

I read my gmail-mail online.

phrakture · 2007-05-21 06:22:20

Xilon wrote:

phrakture wrote:
patroclo7 wrote:
getmail + procmail + mutt + esmtp
fdm > getmail+procmail
fdm + muttng + esmtp
Cool, I just setup fdm, it's much nicer and faster to config than get/fetchmail + procmail. I also stole a few things from your .fdm.conf
Running fdm + mutt + msmtp now

Yeah, the fdm dev added some matching syntax just for me, so I could port my mailing list rules from procmail. Generic mailing list parsing wins.

And yes, the sane fdm configuration is a dream.

onearm · 2007-05-21 09:33:48

fetchmail, procmail, mutt (pretty standard I suppose)
I'm giving a try at fdm atm.

Nene · 2007-05-21 10:46:35

Sometimes just the webinterface of gmail, and sometimes Kmail.

prune · 2007-05-27 00:01:14

I use Thunderbird and Squirrelmail for accessing my IMAP server. When I access Hotmail and GMail, I use their web interfaces.

Freduardo · 2007-05-27 22:18:31

Thunderbird or Sylpheed

And the web interface for my Gmail.

hacosta · 2007-05-27 23:41:55

kmail, but im looking for a console based approach

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Mandor · 2007-05-28 06:56:02

I use only Gmail. I just can't see the point of mail clients in that regard. If I don't have internet connection, that like not having electricity - I say it to point that offline message processing is senseless for me.

Google services are the only reason to still have firefox employed. I feel guilty and I know that one day I will be sorry for getting more dependent on an evil corporation, but I just can't help it

defcon · 2007-05-28 08:21:36

kmail

madeye · 2007-05-30 19:16:42

I've tried a variety of email clients, but I keep going back to kmail. I just like the way it looks and how it works.

kano · 2007-06-03 09:05:01

Thunderbird with GMail.
I used to use evolution, but I gave Thunderbird a try because Evo would take forever to load one of my folders with 39,000 messages. Loads instantly in Thunderbird

beejayzed · 2007-06-05 06:57:07

Another opera mail user here.

patroclo7 · 2007-07-03 07:58:34

patroclo7 wrote:

I tried to use fdm several times in the past, but I have been unable to have it working. I had absurd problem with default tags expansion (the tag for the present year expanded to 135, that for the present month to April when it was January, but the output of "date" in my system is correct). I tried to define instead a macro which takes the output of date (this is what I actually do in .procmailrc), but I have never been able to have it working. Moreover, I missed the formail function of maintaining a cache for duplicates and was enable to make formail interact with fdm in a match... pipe... returns rule.
The sample config files in the package do not illuminate these aspects. There is no mailing list, no forum and the author did never reply to my questions by email. Phrakture, may be that your config file can illuminate me? Do you know an alternative method to avoid duplicate messages?

Well, the author of fdm had not received my original email, found this post and contacted me directly: in about 6 hours he solved in CVS all the problems which were stopping me from using fdm. Really impressing.

Now I appreciate all the advantages of fdm: in particular, the clear syntax and the proper interaction with the system log. There is in CVS a new system to catch duplicates which seems to work fine.

There is also a mailing list now:

https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fdm-users

mianka · 2007-07-03 08:59:27

Kmail

lloeki · 2007-07-03 09:40:24

I use a gmail account as an address sink/source (forwarding+sending all my other email addresses), so that I benefit of the spam filter, and as an archive+backup, but I fetch/send it as pop/smtp into claws and rarely use gmail as is.

I know that one day I will be sorry for getting more dependent on an evil corporation, but I just can't help it

at least that corporation both relies heavily and actively contributes to open-source initiatives.

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juvestar15 · 2007-07-03 10:02:07

I use Thunderbird because I can share profiles between my XP and (any)Linux installations.

I copy the Thunderbird/Firefox folders with my settings/emails/bookmarks in them to a FAT32 partition and edit the profile file's settings in each operating system to point to those folders on the FAT32 partition. All my email settings and emails, bookmarks etc... are the same if I boot up Linux or Windows. Whenever I try a new distro I have email and web browsing setup properly almost immediately.

I haven't tried doing it with other email clients or browsers, it was extremely simple with mozilla so I didn't bother with anything else.

faw · 2007-07-03 13:47:38

I use Claws-mail.

cactus · 2007-07-03 15:02:17

I have started using google apps mail, and so far I have been liking it.
I use a few greasemonkey scripts, to make it just a bit nicer.

tomfitzyuk · 2007-07-06 13:46:04

getmail, procmail, mutt, msmtp

shining · 2007-07-06 14:51:15

tomfitzyuk wrote:

getmail, procmail, mutt, msmtp

I was using gmail web interface until now, but I just tried that setup again,
and it looks nice. I just wonder how long it'll last this time.

I already had it nicely working a while ago, but don't even remember how I lost it,
maybe I didn't bother setting it up again after a reinstall or something

What I find cool when the mails are present locally, in Maildir format, is you can just do "ls /path/to/new | wc -l"
to find the number of new mails

tomfitzyuk · 2007-07-06 15:13:12

I like the interface. I like how mutt integrates well with gnupg (of course, since encrypted email isn't particularly popular, I have little need for it). I like having local backups of my mail. (I use all of this with my gmail account)

miko · 2007-07-06 16:31:33

thunderbird+imapfilter+popfile (to classify mail on my imap/pop accounts)

Regards,
miko

The_ouroboros · 2007-07-06 19:30:53

Sylpheed

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