[plug] IMAP Client

[Onno Benschop]

This day has begun in a rather unexpected manner. I suppose the writing 
was on the wall for a while, but it took me by surprise.

Some weeks ago I did my standard apt-get upgrade and was presented with 
Evolution 2 for the first time. Up to that point I'd been running 1.4.6 
for quite some time with few issues. The installation went smoothly, but 
the first launch failed when the mail import failed. I lodged a bug 
report, went back to Evolution 1.4.6 and found out that other things on 
my machine, Multi-Sync for one, were broken.

It was at this point that I finally decided to migrate 2.1Gb of email 
into IMAP and with the assistance of #debian, some bash scripts and some 
manual tweaking, my mail now lives on an IMAP server.

I then installed Thunderbird in an attempt to get away from the 
bloatware that is Evolution.

Thunderbird served me pretty well until today.

Minor annoyances, such as incorrect filtering, mail notification and 
virtual folder bugs pale to insignificance when I look at some of the 
email that Thunderbird has sent out on my behalf. Messages attached and 
forwarded have turned out to be either not included, butchered, BASE64 
encoded without headers and any number of other monstrosities.

To top it off I sent out two plain text messages, Fixed-Width, 
pre-format, only to see them completely mangled in my out-box - they 
contained an ASCII-art reminder to a sys-admin to upgrade a database 
server as soon as possible, but thanks to the joys of Thunderbird, the 
message failed to arrive.

Other "features" include the inability to actually forward messages in 
any way that spamcop can understand, each attempt resulting in a spamcop 
error.

I am a heavy email user, I started off with Pegasus Mail because my 
employer required it, back in 1992. I ended up writing my own HyperCard 
stack to deal with message tracking. I then migrated to Eudora where I 
happily stayed for the next eight years, version 1.4.3 was rock solid, 
shame about the later versions. When I migrated to Linux, I went with 
Evolution, which over time has become slower and slower, and less and 
less stable.

I am in desperate search for a replacement email client.

Any suggestions - and don't come to me with anything that doesn't include:

    * IMAP connectivity
    * Multiple Signatures
    * Multiple Accounts
    * Filters
    * Spell Checking


I'm keeping my fingers crossed that someone in our community also 
receives some 100 emails or so a day and that they have found a solution 
that doesn't involve pulling out hair.


Crossed fingers,

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Onno Benschop

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