Back in the days I used Eudora as my email client, I didn’t like Outlook Express, the development kinda stopped on Eudora and I needed more out of my email client. After releuctantly using Outlook Express I was relieved to see Thunderbird and I made the switch. I never looked back again and never thought about Eudora again.
When I made the switch to Linux, Thunderbird was the obvious choice. I tried Evolution but that just didn’t do it for me.
With all the turmoil at Mozilla and the new MailCo that’s started I don’t know what to think. The future of Thunderbird isn’t clear, nothing has been said expect not to worry, yeah we heard that before. The two big names of Thunderbird development left Mozilla the last couple of days. Some people suggest there will be forking of Thunderbird.
While waiting for more news I decided to look around at other clients.Evolution is a no-no for me, I just don’t like it. Claws looks promising. I’m having some issues converting though, I tried the scripts Claws offers but with no luck. Converting by hand is a pain, I’ve got a lot of folders and several accounts. I’ll keep looking around, just in case Thunderbird becomes a wingless bird.
Back in the days I used Eudora as my email client, I didn’t like Outlook Express, the development kinda stopped on Eudora and I needed more out of my email client. After releuctantly using Outlook Express I was relieved to see Thunderbird and I made the switch. I never looked back again and never thought about Eudora again.
When I made the switch to Linux, Thunderbird was the obvious choice. I tried Evolution but that just didn’t do it for me.
With all the turmoil at Mozilla and the new MailCo that’s started I don’t know what to think. The future of Thunderbird isn’t clear, nothing has been said expect not to worry, yeah we heard that before. The two big names of Thunderbird development left Mozilla the last couple of days. Some people suggest there will be forking of Thunderbird.
While waiting for more news I decided to look around at other clients.Evolution is a no-no for me, I just don’t like it. Claws looks promising. I’m having some issues converting though, I tried the scripts Claws offers but with no luck. Converting by hand is a pain, I’ve got a lot of folders and several accounts. I’ll keep looking around, just in case Thunderbird becomes a wingless bird.
Looking around at options and wondering if you came up with a good thunderbird replacement. Release 3 just seems so bloated and inefficient to me. It just took 10 minutes to load (since it was updating itself), has a terribly slow rendering process that doesn’t seem to care whether you’ve moved to another email or even deleted something, it’s going to display that page slowly whether you need to see it or not. I may drop back to v2 for a while, but since it’s not being updated, that can’t be a long term thing.
The article is quiet old but I’ve been using Claws Mail for years now and I’m not looking back.
You can read more about my switch in the following articles:
http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2007/10/09/claws-mail/
http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2007/10/10/claws-mail-part-2/
http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2007/10/11/claws-mail-part-3/
http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2007/10/23/claws-mail-part-iv/
Of course over time Claws Mail has evolved as well and it’s gotten better.
Yes, I realized it was old, but that was one reason I asked. I thought you might have advanced beyond the thought stage. I will have a look at Claws and I thank you for the suggestion.