[gentoo-amd64] Re: Replacement for Thunderbird.

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

"Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> posted
473DF470.1050901@ercbroadband.org, excerpted below, on  Fri, 16 Nov 2007
14:50:08 -0500:

> Well, I'm sitting here reading about the lack of thunderbird devel over
> the next year or two until the new Mozilla project (or whatever you wish
> to call it) gets rolling and I'm wondering, what is a good replacement
> for Tbird, specifically for KDE.
> 
> I use Evolution when I'm in GNOME at home, but I've really disliked it's
> direction recently.  KMail works off and on, but might be suitable.  But
> are there any others out there not built with gtk+ so I don't have to
> compile all that just for one app?

As a KDE user who has GTK+ merged just for pan support, I can identify. 
=8^(  Personally, kmail works well for me.  Well, it normally does.  I'm 
trying the kde4 betas lately and my account settings seem to have 
disappeared due to switching back and forth between kde-3.5 and kde4-svn, 
but putting them back in worked, and that's the sort of inconveniences 
that one running betas gets used to, on occasion, but other than that, 
I've been quite happy with kmail.  

Note that I use the pop3 and local maildir delivery features only, 
however.  While kmail supports IMAP, I understand it hasn't been as 
smoothly handled until recently, and possibly still isn't, altho IMAP 
should work in general.  If you don't use or can avoid IMAP, kmail is 
nice.  If you do use IMAP and can't conveniently avoid it, then I know 
there's basic support at least, but I can't fairly say how good it is as 
I've not used the IMAP side myself, but have read it's not the same.

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