Re: Mail clients - which way forward?

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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?

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  David

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