E-mail client for cross-platform use (dual-boot machine)

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coplaniuk · Post by **coplaniuk** » Thu May 10, 2007 5:41 pm

I'm looking for a good e-mail client. As open ended as that query may be, I have a few stipulations:

1) It has to support IMAP.
2) It has to be cross-platform -- I run both Windows and Linux on this machine, and don't really want two clients if I don't need it.

Thunderbird would be the obvious choice, but I'm growing tired of its quirkiness. There are tiny little annoyances that I have grown to dislike.

If I must, I might switch to Evolution in Linux...and find something else for windows. But I'd really like to avoid having two different programs. Currently I run Thunderbird in both.

di1bert · Post by **di1bert** » Thu May 10, 2007 6:04 pm

I thought I remember there being a version of Evolution for Windows...

http://shellter.sourceforge.net/evolution/

I'm not sure how stable it is as I've not tested but it might be worth looking
at if you're tired of Thunderbird.

HTH

-m

coplaniuk · Post by **coplaniuk** » Fri May 11, 2007 6:31 am

Good tip. I'll keep an eye on that. But I downloaded and tried it out, and it's very buggy. I get lots of errors starting up, and then it doesn't render properly.

think4urs11 · Post by **think4urs11** » Fri May 11, 2007 6:47 am

as you didn't ask for a GUI: mutt (via cygwin on windows), there's also a (beta) native win32-based mutt

coplaniuk · Post by **coplaniuk** » Fri May 11, 2007 6:56 am

Has anyone ever used Claws?

Also interested in your thoughts on Mahogony and Sylpheed.

karnesky · Post by **karnesky** » Tue May 15, 2007 3:13 pm

coplaniuk wrote:1) It has to support IMAP.
2) It has to be cross-platform -- I run both Windows and Linux on this machine, and don't really want two clients if I don't need it.

Thunderbird/seamonkey, (al)pine, or mulberry if IMAP, cross-platform, and stability are priorities. Mulberry is proprietary but gratis. alpine is the classic pine under the Apache license. Since I prefer F/OSS, I use alpine + thunderbird. I've use seamonkey off-and-on. I prefer their community over TB's corporate development. However, TB's new features often draw me away. I used to use mulberry. If you are O.K. with proprietary software, it is a great IMAP client.

Thunderbird would be the obvious choice, but I'm growing tired of its quirkiness. There are tiny little annoyances that I have grown to dislike.

What would those be?

Gergan Penkov · Post by **Gergan Penkov** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:55 pm

probably slightly offtopic, but last I've heard Mulberry was opensourced (probably two weeks ago), it was on heise.de.

karnesky · Post by **karnesky** » Fri May 18, 2007 4:00 am

Neat!
http://trac.mulberrymail.com/mulberry/wiki/opensource

RoeR · Post by **RoeR** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:50 am

anyone to make an ebuild on new opensourced mulberry?

would be really nice to see the list of imap-clients completed

darklegion · Post by **darklegion** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:10 pm

I quite like opera's built in mail client (but that's an acquired taste)

franzf · Post by **franzf** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:40 pm

With kde4 being available on more platforms also kdepim and so kmail are available.
I did not try kmail on windows yet, but since about 2 weeks i have absolutely no problem using nearly-daily svn-builds on Linux.
I'm using web.de and gmx.de with IMAP!

E-mail client for cross-platform use (dual-boot machine)

E-mail client for cross-platform use (dual-boot machine)

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