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Ask HN: Are there any good alternatives to Mozilla Thunderbird?
- krakensden 16y agoYou should mention your platform, but in general, no. Email clients are in a perfect storm of unsexy, mostly solved, and difficult to make money from.
- gsivil 16y agoI am sorry for my brief post. I am talking from the perspective of the user. Of course hearing the view of the developers would be very interesting. I am on ubuntu and I would like a lighter alternative to Thunderbird for my netbook. I think that a google product along the lines of TB wold be interesting, but I am not sure if they see that as a competition to Gmail that is Ad-compatible.
- krakensden 16y agoYou could check out KMail, it's fast and the most complete replacement. Other options include Evolution (even slower than TBird), mutt, sup, claws, and alpine. Or you could be like everyone else, and just use gmail.
- gsivil 16y agoThanks for your suggestions. Maybe the most common solution is the best in that case.
- atgm 16y agoNot being snarky here, but how about gmail? If you want pop3 or IMAP, you can do that in gmail. You can also tag/color e-mails based on which address they're coming from, set up reply-to, have a huge amount of space for archiving, Google searching for your e-mails...
- gsivil 16y agoThanks.I am currently using gmail but I never set up my external accounts. The only limitation that I see on that is that at the moment we cannot use it offline. I am reading that this will be coming with HTML5. But I am not sure.
- maguay 16y agoPostbox is a nice alternative, though it is made from Thunderbird code by many of the people from the Thunderbird team. Still, they made the user experience much better... Check it out at http://www.postbox-inc.com/ http://www.postbox-inc.com/, and there's a free, Express version available too.