Email

[taimatsu]

I am crap at email. Part of this is because I use mutt, and I am crap at mutt. I have been using it for well over a year now and I'm not getting any better, so it's time for a change. I always intended to go back to a graphical mailreader when I had my own computer, and now I do. Back in the day I used the Netscape mailreader on my iMac; now I am running Debian/KDE. I want something which will pick up mail sent to about three addresses, and allow me to sort it all into nice folders and things, and not be too complicated to configure. Any suggestions?

Comments

[kizzie.livejournal.com]

thunderbird?

[thinkstoomuch.livejournal.com]

The big two names are probably Evolution and Thunderbird (though the latter is Firefox related, so maybe it's Lightningsnake on Debian :P). I've not used Thunderbird, I used to use Evolution, but it suffers from bells-and-whistles syndrome a bit much for my tastes.

If you want a lightweight gui email client, Sylpheed is quite nice.

Of course, since it's opensource niceness, you can easily export/import mail between all three of these clients (and to/from mutt as well I'd guess), so you can mess around as much as you like and lose nothing but time.

[diffrentcolours]

I'm using Kmail when I need a graphical client. It can handle multiple IMAP accounts nicely (which is mutt's major failing) and also handle multiple identities within one account, which is great when you have many addresses forwarding to one mailbox, but want to reply from many addresses also.

It was a huge pain in the arse in previous versions but seems to have been radically overhauled for KDE 3.5 which you're running.

[diffrentcolours]

Incidentally, what is it about mutt that you find problematic? I found it pretty tricky until I was shown some neat configuration tweaks which make it much more usable.

[ms-saffie.livejournal.com]

Not sure it'll work with your OS, but I really recommend Thunderbird. It handles multiple email addresses very well.

[chaosdeathfish.livejournal.com]

I use thunderbird when I'm on my laptop (and gmail everywhere else) - I find it lovely and simple.

[abi]

I'll back up all these nice people recommending Thunderbird - I'm a Windows user myself but I know plenty of people who are very happy with the Debian equivalent (icedove? something like that anyway). It does all the things you want it to do and many more besides, and I really like it.

[brrm.livejournal.com]

If I weren't already using mac Mail, I'd probably use Thunderbird. But this comment is also to check whether you know that Urchin has a webmail facility (tangentially related, I'm sure you'd not want to use webmail every day ;-) ).

[jojomojo.livejournal.com]

I always used to use kmail and found it reasonably nice. Of course, I pretty much felt I had to, given I was working with its maintainer at the time ;)

[oneplusme.livejournal.com]

I use Sylpheed. It seems to work pretty nicely and happily handles just about every type of account I can throw at it.

If you're using KDE, KMail will probably do fine.

[sparrowsion]

A couple of years ago I gave brief try-outs to Evolution, KMail and Thunderbird. Bear in mind that this was two years ago on then-stable Debian, so things are likely to have moved on, but I found Evolution and Thunderbird to be unusable. I'm pretty happy with KMail, and don't think I'd use anything else under X (even if not otherwise using KDE).