an e-mail client for dovecot ?

Jerry jerry at seibercom.net
Mon Jul 18 10:00:36 UTC 2016


On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 07:27:15 -0700, Dave Stevens stated:

>On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 08:02:33 +0000 (UTC)
>Spyros Tsiolis <stsiol at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> For some years now, I've been using Thunderbird for dovecot.
>> I am not very satisfied with t/b so I thought of using m/s outlook 
>> but then I thought that I want to distance my clients from office
>> products.
>> 
>> I have a newly created dovecot installation on a very small site.
>> Three nodes, all x86 Windows 7 professional with an ubuntu v14.04
>> server (x86 again) running dovecot 1.2.17.
>> 
>> The clients there use dovecot as an imap server, so they have a 
>> real-world e-mail account each and whatever they want to keep , they
>> store by gradding-and-dropping to the imap (local / archive) account.
>> 
>> Since I have quite some experiece with thunderbird, I know most of
>> its shortcomings; So I thought if there's an alternative (better?)
>> imap mail client for x86 windows 7 systems than t/b.
>> 
>> Even better if there's an alternative client that is also supporeted
>> under linux .
>> 
>> Any ideas are welcome,
>> 
>> TIA,
>> 
>> s.t.  
>
>I use Claws and like it a lot. Has plugins for extensions, very fast to
>work with.
>
>Dave

I like "claws-mail" also; however, it does have some particular quirks.
The most annoying one is that it is not a fully "multi-threaded"
application. This can make it extremely annoying when sending or
receiving mail.

-- 
Jerry


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