On 3/13/2010 2:22 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > I wonder if anyone might offer advice about the way forward with mail > client choice to satisfy a set of needs? > > I currently use Thunderbird as my mail client of choice for the > following reasons: > 1) It has both email support with a good address book facility, as > well as caldav calendar support via the lightning extension. This will > sync calendars with both google and yahoo calendars. > 2) It has GPG encryption support via the enigmail extension > 3) It is being developed at present, and I currently use Thunderbird > 3.1b2 in Fedora even though the stock version is somewhat behind this > nightly version. > > Even though the local storage is in mbox format which I dislike (I far > prefer maildir), I don't need it since I run a local dovecot imap > server on each machine and run filters to copy mail to the local imap > store which then also has the advantage that mail is client agnostic. > I don't need the GLODA or other fancy indexing systems, but the search > bar within Thunderbird serves my needs perfectly well. > > Now there appears to be a forthcoming problem in that rumour has it > that enigmail will stop being developed beyond Thunderbird 3.2 so if I > continue to update the mail client then at some point I will lose the > ability to use encrypted mail within the mail client - and that is > important to me, SMIME is available but I will still need to decrypt > previous mails and I really do prefer GPG to SMIME anyway. > > So the question is which other mail client has a good UI, will support > encryption (GPG) within the client, and hopefully has local maildir > format, calendar (caldav) support and good filter facilities as well > as being able to cope well with multiple email accounts? This needs > to be a client that looks like it will be supported as we move into > the future of Fedora. > > Anyone able to offer considered advice? Where did you get this rumor about Enigmail? -- David
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