Linux Ware Weekly #4 (Email Clients)
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From: Whirled.Peas on 15 Mar 2010 07:25 The Linux Ware Weekly #4 Welcome to the Linux Ware Weekly, a series of posts intended to introduce Linux users to software they may find useful for completing their various tasks. Each week I plan to bring you a list of applications that are suited to a certain task. I don't guarantee that the lists will be exhaustive by any stretch. In fact I can guarantee that I will probably overlook several applications since there are so many different programs written for Linux and forks upon forks of the popular ones. This week we will be looking at email clients. I am skipping Thunderbird because I figure most folks are quite familiar with it. GUI Clients: Evolution License: GPL Homepage: http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/ Screenshot: http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/screenshots.shtml Evolution is much more than just an email client. It is a full-featured PIM that offers many functions beyond what you might want if all you are seeking is a simple email program. Evolution can interface with Microsoft Exchange server accounts and GMail accounts. Supported mail protocols include IMAP, POP, SMTP and authenticated SMTP, as well as Microsoft Exchange 2000, 2003, and 2007. It also supports LDAP. It is extensible through a large number of available plugins. Evolution is included with Gnome desktop environment as the default mail client. Balsa License: GPL Homepage: http://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ Screenshot: http://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/screenshots.html On the other end of the spectrum for Gnome email clients is Balsa. It is much lighter than Evolution. It is still a full featured email client. It supports local system mailbox formats as well as POP3, IMAP and SMTP for external email. Balsa is in active development. KMail License: GPL Homepage: http://userbase.kde.org/KMail Screenshot: http://userbase.kde.org/File:Kmail-kde4.png Kmail is the email client built into the Kontact suite for KDE. If you have ever used Thunderbird, you will be right at home with Kmail. The interface and feature set are very similar. As part of a larger suite of programs, you get much more than just an email client. Kmail supports the standard mail protocols IMAP, POP3 and SMTP. It has support for OpenPGP, PGP / MIME and S/MIME. You can also read and write HTML emails. Sylpheed License: LGPL Homepage: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ Screenshot: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/images/sylpheed2-mainwindow.png Sylpheed is an independent email client that is not designed with any one particular window manager of desktop environment in mind. It is a lightweight and simple client that focuses on stability. Sylpheed supports not only the major protocols such as POP3, IMAP4rev1 and SMTP, but also NNTP. IPv6 is also supported by default. There is an active documentation project coordinated with Sylpheed. http:// sylpheeddoc.sourceforge.net/en/doc_manual.html is the site for further info. Claws License: GPL3 Homepage: http://www.claws-mail.org/ Screenshot: http://www.claws-mail.org/img/screenshots/main.png Claws mail is a fork of the Sylpheed project that began as a testbed for new features for Sylpheed. Consequently, it has more features than Sylpheed, and is very extensible through a large number of plugins. If you are looking for a lightweight, reliable, responsive email client, Claws Mail will very likely suit your needs. Mahogany Mail License: The Mahogany “Artistic License” & GPL Homepage: http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/index.html Screenshot: http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html Mahogany Mail is a mail / nntp client written from scratch that focuses on being feature rich. I am not sure the project is still active. The last change log listed at the SVN site is from September of 2008. However, the project is noted for long periods of seeming inactivity between releases. The list of features for the current release is quite long. Trojitá License: GPL Homepage: http://trojita.flaska.net/ Screenshot: http://trojita.flaska.net/screenshots.html From the project page: “Trojita is a Qt IMAP email client. It is a pure Qt4 application with no additional dependencies. It has a robust IMAP core implemented using Qt's Model-View framework. Standards compliance is a design goal. It has support for bandwidth-saving mode aimed at mobile users with expensive connections. In addition to the usual SSL/TLS connections, the server can be accessed via SSH. It has on-demand body part loading, offline IMAP support, and safe dealing with HTML mail (actually more robust than Thunderbird's).” Trojita is still in development, but is completely functional in the current release. Text-based Clients: Mutt License: GPL2 Homepage: http://www.mutt.org/ Mutt may best be known for it's slogan: “All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.” Mutt is very feature rich despite being very lightweight. It is very user friendly and there is a lot of online documentation available for users. The program is very extensible. Mutt can (with the correct extension) serve as an NNTP client too. Mutt can handle huge volumes of mail without bogging down. Cone License: GPL Homepage: http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/index.html Like Mutt, Cone (Console Newsreader and Emailer) is very user friendly and capable. Unlike Mytt, Cone has its own built in text editor for message composition. Cone has a built in tutorial to get users up and running quickly. However, Cone is also well suited to power users. Sup License: GPL Homepage: http://sup.rubyforge.org/ From the home page: “Sup is a console-based email client for people with a lot of email. It supports tagging, very fast full-text search, automatic contact- list management, custom code insertion via a hook system, and more. If you're the type of person who treats email as an extension of your long-term memory, Sup is for you.” The developer of Sup says this about his program: “The goal of Sup is to become the email client of choice for nerds everywhere.” Sup is a very strong little email client. The developer has taken the Gmail ideology and brought it to a CLI mail client. Sup is very fast and capable when dealing with large volumes of mail. -- If you try, you can envision peas on earth.
From: Wheel on 15 Mar 2010 14:10 Whirled.Peas wrote: > The Linux Ware Weekly #4 > > This week we will be looking at email clients. This is really good stuff. I will be referencing this series when I decide to take a walk on the free side of the street. Thank you.
From: JP Loken on 20 Mar 2010 17:28 PÃ¥ Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:25:51 +0100, skrev Whirled.Peas <peas(a)earth.org>: > The Linux Ware Weekly #4 > > Welcome to the Linux Ware Weekly, a series of posts intended to introduce > Linux users to software they may find useful for completing their various > tasks. Each week I plan to bring you a list of applications that are > suited to a certain task. I don't guarantee that the lists will be > exhaustive by any stretch. In fact I can guarantee that I will probably > overlook several applications since there are so many different programs > written for Linux and forks upon forks of the popular ones. > > This week we will be looking at email clients. I am skipping Thunderbird > because I figure most folks are quite familiar with it. <snip> Opera is a fairly good e-mail client IMHO. I've used it myself for some years now. What I particularly like is the integration between e-mail and internet. -- JP Loken Sent with Opera's e-mail program: http://www.opera.com/mail/
From: pooky on 20 Mar 2010 19:40
"JP Loken" <jp_lokennospam(a)hotmailspam.com> wrote in news:op.u9vxxcss13bhk7(a)evon620c: > What I particularly like is the integration between e-mail and > internet. o_O |