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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-XXXheaders 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.
STAR Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. http://www.star-group.net/ Phone: +86 (21) 3462 7688 x 826 Fax: +86 (21) 3462 7779
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