Comments on: Claws Mail vs. Thunderbird – A comparison

By: Eduardo Gurgel

Eduardo Gurgel — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:50:08 +0000

Thunderbird + Zindus extension = Thunderbird + GMail Contacts sync

By: Nikkobuntu

Nikkobuntu — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:04:58 +0000

Thank’s all for the topic …

I was on finding an alternative to Thunderbirb, mainly for the poorly way that Thunderbird is managing contacts. On one of my PC’s I switched to Evolution .. and not really happy with it, but it’s not the topic here.
SO, what about the contact management offered by Claws ?
Is any one who had experience with Outlook or Evolution would give me some commentary on this point ?

Thks in advance ..

By: HenryH

HenryH — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:08:04 +0000

Wine leaves lots to be desired but The Bat! does have lots of good points (IMAP is not one of them). I had thought of having my own mailserver locally but that seems to me to be overkill for something which SHOULD be quite simple – getting the mail!!

I have given up on Claws (for a while anyway) an have decided to use The Bat! (under wine) for the pop3 accounts and Thunderbird for the IMAP. It’s a compromise but one I can live with as I can e-mail between the accounts for the few times when I need to transfer info between the clients.

Thanks for your thoughts.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:46:42 +0000

The inability to do anything Claws when it is checking mail is annoying.
I don’t have the problem of multiple SMTP accounts although I do have several accounts that require different SMTP accounts. I “solved” it by setting up a mail server in my local network and have the mail server handle the remote SMTP settings, In claws I just have on SMTP setting, to my local mail server.

I never used The Bat!, but I don’t like to use wine in general, kinda defeats the purpose of running Linux.

By: HenryH

HenryH — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:24:41 +0000

Thanks 4 the comparison.

I used Thunderbird for several years and then switched to Claws a year or so back (mainly for the GPG support. Now I’m thinking of switching back to Thunderbird because:
Claws won’t let me do anything else in Claws when it’s checking e-mail accounts.
Claws won’t even let me xkill it when it’s off checking for mail!!
I’m getting some (html) e-mails which show nothing in claws unless I invoke html viewing
I don’t like the way Thunderbird handles multiple SMTP accounts
I don’t like the way Claws Mail handles multiple SMTP accounts

Perhaps I should try to run The Bat! in wine?

I used The Bat! for several yease and was quite happy with it. It’s a pity that the thunderbird (& Claws) developers don’t do SWAT analysis of their product and the competition (from the users’ perspective, NOT the programmers,) to bring in some of the features which work in The Bat! (But The Bat! is not enough to get me to go back to W).

By: alpha1

alpha1 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:43:05 +0000

I installed CLAWS E-mail on my eeePC laptop running Kubuntu Jaunty, but could not figure out how to import all of my Thunderbird E-mail and settings. Is there some way to do this>

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:15:15 +0000

The main reason for me to switch from thunderbird to claws was the ability to filter against the adressbook, and templates (per folder). I’ve seen both features only in The Bat! before. I was missing them since I moved to Linux and thunderbird.

By: Aditya

Aditya — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:50:38 +0000

Thanks for the reply, i thought i need to use the python script found at http://www.claws-mail.org/tools.php

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:57:43 +0000

Claws mail can import mbox which is the format Thunderbird stores its email

By: Aditya

Aditya — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:36:41 +0000

Thanks for this comparison, i’ve been thinking on switching from thunderbird to claws mail. But i have one question, do you know any tools to move all messages from thunderbird into Claws Mail(if there’s any)? because that’s what that keeps holding me back from switching to another email client