On 4/12/24 11:41, Tim via users wrote:
Over the years I've used all of those systems as well except for Mac's, and some of the email packages on those systems were horrendous.Stephen Morris:I'm not sure how Evolution does its thing as I've never used it. If I had the time to invest in setting up a mail system I would still be using Lotus Notes.Over the years I've used Amiga, Windows, Linux, Mac, and mainframes before the public internet (still have a few Data General punch cards, well the ones you filled in with lead pencil rather than punched holes with a tool). I've tried out a variety of email programs, often because the default application was absolutely crap at many of the things I've already brought up.
Out of what are probably the two current main ones on Linux, Evolution and Thunderbird, I found Evolution to be the least worst. I know, that's a terrible way to select a program to use. Thunderbird's slowness and what you see as you type isn't necessarily what you'll get when you're done, vetoes it for me. Likewise with it's modification of received mail to re-render it. I don't use KDE, I can't stand it, and I didn't like their email program when I tried it long ago.
Of all the email packages I've tried I thought Thunderbird was the easiest to use and set up. I'm not impressed with how many threads it runs in the background, but as those threads are dormant they are not really consuming any significant amount of resources.
Main criteria: * IMAP * Ease of navigating through folders and new mail * Not making reading a message difficult * Not absolutely crap at replying to messages * Not slow as mollasses bogging down the CPU * Not a complete pain to transition mail from an old install to a new system installation (mostly made easier by a local IMAP server and never using the mail client as local storage). * Able to turn off *helpful* features (continual background checking for new mail, mail filtering, unfettered downloading of things included in HTML mail, etc). * No hideously designed interfaces, which includes how you configure it, not just how you use it.
Thunderbird also provides most of those features, and I have Thunderbird set up to display the most recent mail, be it in the mailbox or folders it moved to by filters, at the top of the list, and with unread mail being shown in bold text they stand out.
regards,
Steve
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