GUI imap client

[Michael Hernandez]

On Oct 30, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Freddie Cash wrote:

> On Sunday 29 October 2006 07:03 pm, soralx at cydem.org wrote:
>> can anyone kindly recommend a decent GUI imap client? I used KMail  
>> for
>> quite a while and didn't complain, but decided to move away from it
>> (slow, stores message flags in some weird way usable only to itself,
>> fancy, requires KDE, etc).
>
> The "requires KDE" I can understand being a bad thing for some people.
> The rest, though, I find very strange.  I've been using KMail since  
> KDE
> 3.0, and Kontact since it was released, without any issues.  I have  
> over
> 50 folders (with sub-folders) holding 1.5 GB of messages, with some
> folders having over 20,000 messages.  Never had a problem with  
> slowness
> (except the period where the IMAP server was running Courier IMAP,
> switching it to Cyrus sped things up a lot).
>
> As for non-KMail IMAP clients, the ones I know and have used:
>   - evolution (horrid thing, too much like Outlook)
>   - thunderbird (nice, cross-platform)
>
> Personnally, I'd recommend sticking with KMail, but I'm a KDE- 
> whore.  :)

Thunderbird is nice, you may also want to check out Sylpheed

http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/features.html


Mike H