an e-mail client for dovecot ?

Sergey Schwartz sergey.schwartz at bgoperator.com
Tue Jul 19 13:55:05 UTC 2016


Gentlemen,

I can only confirm that Thunderbird may be not perfect, but it is way 
much better then any other imap client.

PS: has anybody tried using Nylas N1 in production 
https://www.nylas.com/about/ ? looks nice :)

Best regards,
Sergey Schwartz

Senior System Administrator
Biblio Globus Tour Operator
www.bgoperator.ru

T: +7 495 5042500 ext 1532
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16.07.2016 20:22, Mark Foley пишет:
> 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.
>>



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