pick a mail client for my wife

Nils Holland nils at tisys.org
Fri Apr 16 08:44:10 PDT 2004


On Friday 16 April 2004 16:37, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>
> What should she try?

Well, just for the fun of it, let me give my opinion on the mail clients 
already mentioned by you:

> Evolution?

I tried this a while ago, and I didn't really like it. That might actually 
have been due to the fact that I wanted a mail client and *only* a mail 
client. If you want something that goes beyond that and kind of offers the 
functionality MS Outlook does, this might indeed be a good choice.

> Thunderbird?

Never tried this under BSD, but I saw this running on a friend's machine under 
Windows. Of course, it's basically the Mozilla mail client without Mozilla, 
but I kind of liked it. This "intelligent" spam detection thing built into it 
looks really good, though I had no chance to play around with my friend's 
machine long enough to find out everything there is about it, and I guess I 
would filter SPAM on the mailserver whenever possible. ;-)

> Kmail? (Maybe not enough features?)

Actually, that's what I use. Of course, it would depend on quite some things - 
you don't need the whole KDE to run it, but QT and kdelibs are the least 
you'll have to install before you can install KMail from kdenetwork. 
Feature-wise, I guess I'm really happy with it! At least it does what I want 
it to and I've not yet found anything I miss. If you want to go with 
something more like Outlook or Evolution, I guess KDE's "Kontact" would be 
something for you. I only had a short look at it, but I guess a suitable 
simplified description would be that it "bundles" KMail and KOrganizer into 
something Outlook-like. ;-)

> Balsa/Balsa2?

Hmm, I was using Balsa some three years ago or so. I guess a lot has changed 
since than, and I must admit that I don't really remember if I was happy with 
it or not. So yeah, I think I won't be able to give my comment on this one. 
*g*

Hope that helps ... if not, I hope it was at least entertaining or 
something. ;-)

Greetings,
Nils


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