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> Last year I seriously played with using a local client (on Linux) for at least my mail. It was a baby step to the real leap I wanted to make, which was to get

> Last year I seriously played with using a local client (on Linux) for at least my mail. It was a baby step to the real leap I wanted to make, which was to get off GMail altogether. But none of the Linux clients were really to my liking; they all had some warts that were just too ugly for me to cutover. Can anyone recommend any good Linux email clients? I've used Thunderbird, KMail, & Mutt, but none of them has really been to my liking. Thunderbird's got the sluggishness that comes with XUL, and KMail & Mutt don't fully support HTML (yes, I know it's an abomination, but other's use it, so I've gotten over it). So I've continued to use the Gmail web UI, even though I'd really prefer to use a desktop client.

dhimes 16y ago
I threw in the towel and went with Evolution on my main rig. I works ok- occasional hiccups, but with calendar integration becoming more important to me I went with it. The Cal syncs to google and my own caldav. T-bird had to come off of the special builds for a 64-bit box, and getting Cal to work was a pain. Since I keep the email on a separate workspace (and Evolution doesn't have taskbar notification by default-which is a win for me) I only check it periodically throughout the day. The major pain-point is that it will "forget" the logins of my accounts if I leave it open all day. With my workflow I can just close it if I get annoyed. Thunderbird handles filters better, in my view. Unless I'm missing something, with Evolution I have to add every single person into a "rule" to sort incoming mails into folders. With Tbird I can say "If member of this list-> go here." Very nice and useful to me as I manage a community service organization with over 100 members. I can send everyone on my mailing list into a special folder for that group without having to enter "by hand." I have a 32 bit netbook that I use Tbird with, however.
- w1ntermute 16y ago
  I use Google Calendar as well, so Evolution sounds like a nice option. It looks like it's really integrated into GNOME though - does it depend on a lot of GNOME libs? How is the support for Gmail's "nonstandard" features, like labels and Priority Inbox? I guess what I really want is a desktop mail client that fully supports Gmail's features. Edit: while reading about Evolution on the ArchWiki, I saw this: "Unfortunately, Evolution currently (version 2.26) suffers from a serious IMAP issue, as reported in [2]. It appears this issue has existed for at least the past 3 years prior to this version, and it shows no signs of being dealt with soon." The alternative IMAP setup they describe involves syncing the mail locally, using up several GB of space, which is scarce on my laptop's SSD. The bug report linked to from the wiki shows that it still hasn't been fixed.
  - dhimes 16y ago
    I don't use gmail- so I can't help you there. My accounts are pop-accounts. I do believe it's heavily based on the gnome libs.
    - dhimes 16y ago
      Update: Calendar seems broken- wouldn't you know, the day after our discussion. It actually does push to google calendar, it just says it isn't. Hmmph.

dhimes 16y ago

I threw in the towel and went with Evolution on my main rig. I works ok- occasional hiccups, but with calendar integration becoming more important to me I went with it. The Cal syncs to google and my own caldav. T-bird had to come off of the special builds for a 64-bit box, and getting Cal to work was a pain. Since I keep the email on a separate workspace (and Evolution doesn't have taskbar notification by default-which is a win for me) I only check it periodically throughout the day. The major pain-point is that it will "forget" the logins of my accounts if I leave it open all day. With my workflow I can just close it if I get annoyed. Thunderbird handles filters better, in my view. Unless I'm missing something, with Evolution I have to add every single person into a "rule" to sort incoming mails into folders. With Tbird I can say "If member of this list-> go here." Very nice and useful to me as I manage a community service organization with over 100 members. I can send everyone on my mailing list into a special folder for that group without having to enter "by hand." I have a 32 bit netbook that I use Tbird with, however.

w1ntermute 16y ago
I use Google Calendar as well, so Evolution sounds like a nice option. It looks like it's really integrated into GNOME though - does it depend on a lot of GNOME libs? How is the support for Gmail's "nonstandard" features, like labels and Priority Inbox? I guess what I really want is a desktop mail client that fully supports Gmail's features. Edit: while reading about Evolution on the ArchWiki, I saw this: "Unfortunately, Evolution currently (version 2.26) suffers from a serious IMAP issue, as reported in [2]. It appears this issue has existed for at least the past 3 years prior to this version, and it shows no signs of being dealt with soon." The alternative IMAP setup they describe involves syncing the mail locally, using up several GB of space, which is scarce on my laptop's SSD. The bug report linked to from the wiki shows that it still hasn't been fixed.
- dhimes 16y ago
  I don't use gmail- so I can't help you there. My accounts are pop-accounts. I do believe it's heavily based on the gnome libs.
  - dhimes 16y ago
    Update: Calendar seems broken- wouldn't you know, the day after our discussion. It actually does push to google calendar, it just says it isn't. Hmmph.