[Dovecot] OT: best linux imap client for dovecot
Patrick Nagel
patrick.nagel at star-group.net
Mon Feb 22 10:39:30 EET 2010
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Hi Lev,
On 2010-02-22 16:04, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
>> This is not a my-email-client-is-better-than-your-email-client thread,
>> I just want to know which client(s) make proper use of imap features
>> for fast searches/copies/deletions etc.
> IMHO, all existing clients suck, but not only due to IMAP4 [mis]using, but
> because UI is terrible.
I like KMail's UI a lot, but its IMAP support is terrible. Hoping that
will change with KMail 2.
> For example, I don't lnow any client with
> proper, accurate text-only quoting (with '> ' marks). Some clients
> forget to spilt long lines, some don't add '> ' when I split quote
> line by hands, some don't remove '> ' automagically when lines in
> quote are merged (by deleting CR/NL on previous line), and things
> become even mnore horrible whrn here are many quotes of different
> level. I'm not mention clients, which have top-quoting-only setting or
> doesn't have templates for editor (no, a signature file IS NOT A
> TEMPLATE!)
I don't know so much about quoting, I think TB gets it right, doesn't
it? Also, on non-line-broken mails, you can press CTRL-R (Rewrap) and
the mail gets proper line breaks. KMail admittedly has some weirdnesses
there, at least in recent versions.
> Threading, working with mailing lists (with all these List-XXX
> headers which are standard now), using diffferent "From" names and
> e-mails for different folders (and, yes, different templates),
> differnet templates for different replies, good filters (Thunderbird's
> filters creation UI is bad, IMHO), flexible but esy-to-setup-default
> purging rules, etc, etc, etc -- all these features are missing or
> implemented horribly wrong in most clients (I don't claim, that every
> client has every feature from this list implemented wrong, but most of
> clients has 1/2 or more of this list absent or unusable).
I think KMail gets all of them right, although I don't use the filter
UI, since I filter with sieve rules on the server.
Patrick.
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