Comments on: List of Email Clients Available in Ubuntu Linux

By: Gwyllym

Gwyllym — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 03:44:49 +0000

To the person who wrote that they can’t afford an iphone etc.
IT is a very difficult for people to admit this in the real world as most people are all about image.
so for you i offer you a few suggestions. 1 download Lynx from the debian or ubunt website, it is a text based www browser and it works well without the huge amount of data and crap that comes with web pages these days.
2. go and seek out what ever you can to improve your machine from where ever you can, off the street, rubbish etc.
3. contact a person who might be a bit computer savy and start improving without spending any $$$
4. Be cool, hard times hit us all and one day it will get easier.
With the Ubuntu community there can be a lot of elitist snobs with huge horsepower in their PC’s that can be real geeky pricks, stay away from them, instead talk to people that are
genuine and can help

By: jon mathew

jon mathew — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:15:21 +0000

Hi. Thanks. i read your post on email clients. which is the best one among these?

i have tried thunderbird before. i will try few others

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:15:01 +0000

Some of us have never seen an iPhone or Blackberry, and will never in a million years be able to afford one. Ever.
Also, our computers are too old and too slow to access web email due to the scripting problems and flashing ads.
Mozilla Thunderbird works great for me under these circumstances.
Yes, I’m posting to an old thread - but, perhaps it will help someone in the future who is searching for desktop email clients.

By: Billy

Billy — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:42:57 +0000

I think the first and foremost reason I use a desktop based email is so that I don’t have to wonder if the email is being blocked/nuked/sent to spam due to being from hotmail/yahoo/gmail - home of the spammers.

By: John

John — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:31:41 +0000

Put simply if you have a lot of data a good e-mail client can’t be beat. Even a bad one is better than webmail. The ability to sort and organize contacts, e-mail, and calendar is crucial to many users. For my home e-mail webmail clients work fine but my work e-mail has so many contacts and e-mails that without being able to organize it to my liking it is almost useless. So far I have found nothing for Ubuntu that will do what I want. Evolution comes the closest but still falls short.

By: Company founder

Company founder — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:41:26 +0000

Hello. Great job. This is a great story. Thanks!

By: George

George — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:46:57 +0000

What about the venerable elm?

comand-line email from the good ol’ days!

By: Orgo Bumm

Orgo Bumm — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:01:28 +0000

After reviewing ALL of them I stay with my Windows The Bat Email Client - really LIGHYEARS ahead in terms of usability. Also there is still so much primitivism out there in the linux world, it is unbelievable. Show me please ONE distro with CLEAN FONTS on a default install. Ridicolous, but this is the truth!

By: scheater5

scheater5 — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:47:39 +0000

I use an email client for my preference with the interface. I use multiple accounts, and I like viewing them all at once. Even using gmail, and having a blackberry, I like being able to check everything from thunderbird (including personal accounts other than gmail and a university account with a local server) when I’m at my desktop. The html handling is superior on thunderbird to blackberry, as well. And I use Sunbird for my calendar, and I like the integration with Sunbird and Thunderbird.

By: Donnie Pennington

Donnie Pennington — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:23:43 +0000

Re: TechDog point #4 - You mean you can close a Browser? Who knew!

By: Techdog

Techdog — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:04:47 +0000

Here are some of the reasons I use an e-mail client:

1. Not tied to Internet connectivity. Since I can have my e-mail setup to sync to local storage, I can work with e-mail offline if I choose. With many web mail services, this isn’t an option. I can leave my work e-mail at work as you stated or I can sync it to my e-mail client. If I had to use POP instead of IMAP, that would be different, because that is where you run into the sync problems, but with IMAP, I just sit down at any of my 4 laptops or 3 desktop machines and have access to all of my mail on any of them.

2. I sometimes receive personal information in e-mail and I don’t trust it being online at Google or Yahoo or any other online e-mail provider. (I run my own mail server.)

3. In my opinion, webmail interfaces universally suck. None of the webmail interfaces I have used, whether it is Gmail, Yahoo mail, Squirrelmail, the web interface to Exchange, or Oracle’s Collabsuite compare to my preferred e-mail client, Evolution. I know this is totally subjective, but that is my opinion. And the Exchange connector for Evolution works great. I used it extensively at my former company and it worked better for me than Outlook.

4. I have yet to find a decent web based e-mail interface that isn’t horribly slow when compared to my regular e-mail client. On top of that, my browser hogs enough system resources without having to keep it open all day to read e-mail.

5. I have multiple e-mail accounts, used for different purposes and my e-mail client of choice allows me to read them all in a common interface.

What I don’t understand is how people can trust their e-mail to online providers like Gmail. And I certainly don’t want my personal e-mail or instant messenger conversations archived on servers that I don’t control. I know from experience how nosy system administrators can be. Plus, I have seen too many online mail services fall by the wayside or suddenly convert from free services to paid services.

If you like Gmail or Yahoo mail or some other online mail service, then fine. To each his own, but I prefer my e-mail client and would only resort to using webmail as a last resort.

By: gg

gg — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:03:18 +0000

and one annother world: as many people don’t have ipod or blackberry, as many countries are not completely plagued by the idea of the mindless oversomsumption. Some people are very appy if they get their first used computer. And i’m sure this is true for the vast majority of humanity.

By: gg

gg — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:41:37 +0000

oh and about work email: well, you need mail software to do work email. a company telling its employees to use webmail, well…

By: gg

gg — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:38:52 +0000

using mail software over gmail has several advantages:

more convinient, and interface fits into desktop
can access mails when offline.
has much more functionality (built in encryption, compression)
syncronisation is no big deal, with imap
well, the international google conspiracy cannot index my mails to send the NSA after me for writing down the world bomb.

kmail rocks. simply is more intelligent than any other mail client in th elist. i have tried balsa and claws. they are buggy. pine is useable over slow lines. mutt is pain, UI in not convinient for me.

mbox and MH mail storage are erro prone btw, and kmailuses maildir backend for locally stored mail.

generelly: mail cleints and local client software are more convinient, usually (as browsers are just raped to provide this functionality, but were not designed for this originally, and that can be felt), and is much more secure.

By: mrchilly0

mrchilly0 — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:41:11 +0000

I’ve tried most of those…and they all fill their little niche…to answer Rusik: I have 2 personal accounts with web based mail, and my everyday email that I have on my server. For those that have their own server, or have various accounts spread throughout the net (I’m sure I’m not the only one..) having a client makes life simple.

By: rusik

rusik — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:25:59 +0000

ou, but i dont’t use any clients because I like gMail (in the web…on there site:))

By: admin

admin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:19:05 +0000

@Imi

You can use thunderbird,Evolution

By: Carl Snyder

Carl Snyder — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:54 +0000

A reason I use an e-mail client is to not leave confidential information on an on-line mail client’s storage, after opening.

Another reason is habit: I have been using e-mail since the amount of on-line storage used to be about enough for 10 text based messages or one message with attachment. If you didn’t get your mail, you had no place to get new messages!

By: rossdub

rossdub — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:20:33 +0000

You have a compiled a very nice, comprehensive, well-researched list. However, I will ask you a question that I posted on Ubuntu Brainstorm a while back while venting frustration about not being able to remove Evolution from my default Ubuntu install: Why is anyone still using desktop email clients? I’m asking a serious, sincere, question, without an ounce of sarcasm or irony: what are the advantages of desktop email clients, over say, Gmail? I can’t think of any. In fact, there are numerous disadvantages with trying to sync your email across multiple accounts, machines, etc., even with IMAP. Unless you are forced to use Exchange for your work, which I’m not sure is fully functional from within Evolution or Thunderbird anyway, why are you still using desktop clients? Even if you do need Exchange support, you can very easily get push email on your iPhone or Blackberry, or better yet, use the web based outlook client that nearly all large companies offer. Even better still, you can leave your work email at WORK. Seriously, can someone please answer this question for me?

By: sepp

sepp — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:48:18 +0000

i just want to say that opera has a built in pop3 and imap client.