an e-mail client for dovecot ?

[Mark Foley]

Wow! That's interesting.  Our office of 10+ Windows 7 *and* Ubuntu workstations have been
moving from Outlook to Thunderbird over the past year. Our users find it WAY BETTER than
Outlook. Have you actually tried Outlook 2013 and later? The suckiness of 2013 was what drove
us to look elsewere in the first place. We tried a number of clients including Evolution and
emClient and Tbird proved the best in my testing.

Thunderbird runs on both Windows and Ubuntu, can do AD authentication and basically has all the
features of Outlook including color categories which our director could not live without; and
can be configured to have a very similar look-and-feel as Outlook.  In over a year of running
Thunderbird (currently at 38.8.0 Ubuntu, 45.2.0 Window) it has performed flawlessly. 

I concur with Charles Marcus' query: can you elaborate on how Thunderbird is failing for you?

--Mark

-----Original Message-----
> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 08:02:33 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Spyros Tsiolis <stsiol at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: Dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org>
> Subject: an e-mail client for dovecot ?
>
> 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.
>