On Thursday 04 September 2014 20:47:35 Kazakore did opine
And Gene did reply:
Hi all.
Sorry for the very much off-topic post but I have asked a couple of
other places and from those tried some recommendations and decided I
don't like them. On the whole you guys and gals seem to have similar
sensibilities to me so hopefully can suggest a email client that I will
agree with. Needs to run nicely in Threaded mode (including own, sent
emails in the thread for normal, non-list conversations.)
Evolution, Thunderbird and Alpine are the ones I've tried. Instantly
didn't like Evolution, tried Thunderbird for about the last week (and
currently typing this in it) with the Conversations plugin and it
almost works but there is a lot which is clunky and not quite right.
Alpine I barely got set up, only managed to get it to sync my Inbox
folder, none of the others, and it all of a sudden stopped even being
willing to do that.
Considered trying kmail but it's a huge download for just an email
client (I assume it takes most of the Kontact library/suite just not
the other actual programs) and am currently on too poor a connection
to feel it was worth trying on the off-chance (IE it wasn't actually
recommended by anybody.)
Thanks and sorry for the noise. Dale :)
While I have been using kmail, admittedly an older version now since this
is a ubu 10.04.4 LTS server install I added X stuffs to, and am fairly
happy with it. But with an email corpus approaching 20Gb, spanning almost
13 years in some folders,it does get a bit laggy at times. But by
offloading the mail popping activities with a
fetchmail/procmail/clamav/spamassassin/ chain so all kmail has to do is
fetch from the /var/spool/mail inbox's, it generally remains quite
responsive most of the time. Sure, it has some warts, but its ease of
configuration kicks the rest of the wannabe's out of contention here. I
am on the claws list, and rather like its user interface, but it has not
grown the ability to import the kmail email corpus. Yet.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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