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I've searched in vain for an alternative, open or closed, to Mail.app on any platform ever since Mozilla lost its mind and released Thunderbird 3. I can't find

I've searched in vain for an alternative, open or closed, to Mail.app on any platform ever since Mozilla lost its mind and released Thunderbird 3. I can't find anything fast, simple, stable, and maintained. The next best option I've found is, of all things, Outlook (Mac or Windows), not that it's particularly desirable, either.

clebio 13y ago
I'm somewhat confused. Thunderbird on my computer is at version 24.0.1, are you referring to an ancient version, or a different numbering scheme?
- nknighthb 13y ago
  Thunderbird 3.0 was released at the end of 2009. This was before Mozilla adopted a Chrome-like versioning strategy that led to rapid number inflation for both Thunderbird and Firefox. (1.0 was released in 2004; 2.0 was released in 2007; 3.0 was released in 2009; 3.1 in 2010; 5 (there was no 4) in 2011 commencing rapid versioning. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Thunderbird#Release_history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Thunderbird#... ) 3.0 was a radical departure from and regression in speed, stability, and usability relative to the 1.x and 2.x series.
aidenn0 13y ago
I've used claws in a pop environment; it beats the pants off of evolution as an e-mail client. I haven't tried its imap though. I stopped using thunderbird about 7 years ago when it deleted messages off of a Pop3 server before noticing that the disk with my mailbox on it was full, thus losing dozens of messages. People tell me it's better now, but I'm currently happy with claws. I've recently been trying trojita as my imap client (have been using mutt otherwis). It's fairly feature simple, but blazingly fast.
- nknighthb 13y ago
  Claws disqualified itself by being slow and crashing often when I tried to use it (with IMAP) maybe a year ago. If there's been significant progress since I might give it another shot, but it'd take a long time to have any real confidence in it... I'll poke at Trojita but it'll have the same confidence issue by virtue of being relatively new.
- Aloha 13y ago
  Evolution flies as a IMAP client. I loathe to use any client with POP.
SyneRyder 13y ago
Have you tried Postbox? (http://postbox-inc.com/ http://postbox-inc.com/) It's a commercially maintained fork of Thunderbird that runs on Mac & Windows, and it's the only email client that keeps my email life sane. (Though I've had to install a plugin to add back email-priority functionality.)

clebio 13y ago

I'm somewhat confused. Thunderbird on my computer is at version 24.0.1, are you referring to an ancient version, or a different numbering scheme?

nknighthb 13y ago
Thunderbird 3.0 was released at the end of 2009. This was before Mozilla adopted a Chrome-like versioning strategy that led to rapid number inflation for both Thunderbird and Firefox. (1.0 was released in 2004; 2.0 was released in 2007; 3.0 was released in 2009; 3.1 in 2010; 5 (there was no 4) in 2011 commencing rapid versioning. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Thunderbird#Release_history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Thunderbird#... ) 3.0 was a radical departure from and regression in speed, stability, and usability relative to the 1.x and 2.x series.

aidenn0 13y ago

I've used claws in a pop environment; it beats the pants off of evolution as an e-mail client. I haven't tried its imap though. I stopped using thunderbird about 7 years ago when it deleted messages off of a Pop3 server before noticing that the disk with my mailbox on it was full, thus losing dozens of messages. People tell me it's better now, but I'm currently happy with claws. I've recently been trying trojita as my imap client (have been using mutt otherwis). It's fairly feature simple, but blazingly fast.

nknighthb 13y ago
Claws disqualified itself by being slow and crashing often when I tried to use it (with IMAP) maybe a year ago. If there's been significant progress since I might give it another shot, but it'd take a long time to have any real confidence in it... I'll poke at Trojita but it'll have the same confidence issue by virtue of being relatively new.
Aloha 13y ago
Evolution flies as a IMAP client. I loathe to use any client with POP.

SyneRyder 13y ago

Have you tried Postbox? (http://postbox-inc.com/ http://postbox-inc.com/) It's a commercially maintained fork of Thunderbird that runs on Mac & Windows, and it's the only email client that keeps my email life sane. (Though I've had to install a plugin to add back email-priority functionality.)