On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 10:30 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
kmail v.3 is barely usable, v4 is good.
It looks like you don't like any of the email programs we've discussed. Which email programs do you like?
it depends whether you ask what I personally use or what i recommend to my clients.
I personally use alpine exclusively. I don't like GUI interfaces. And i use alpine directly handling maildir so it's not about IMAP. But if you need mail client over IMAP - alpine can do this, but cannot cache.
mutt can cache if you like that program. i don't - in spite of much better functionality. alpine have lowest keypress to amount of word done ratio of any mail program i know.
For my clients it depends
windoze: exclusively thunderbird. It's FAR FAR from perfect but still best you can get under windoze.
X11 terminal based config: well... it's funny but too thunderbird. All QT based programs are useless with X11 over network. Thunderbird works fine. I disable "folder synchronization" as well as indexing in it, so it's acceptably fast. The need to connecting over localhost from account X to account X to dovecot-imap is quite stupid but not a problem.
For now it is thunderbird 10.0.5esr - both windows and FreeBSD
I want to be able to read and write HTML, since my correspondents use and expect it, so alpine is out. I had been happy with evolution, but it is now badly broken under KDE, and I am in process of changing to Thunderbird, as you see.
Thanks for the advice - jon