[plug] IMAP Client

[Carl Gherardi]

Hey Onno,


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:09:28 +1100, Onno Benschop <onno at itmaze.com.au> wrote:
> 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.
>

Importing from 1.4.x to 2 sucks - i'm yet to see it complete
successfully, and there are 1000 bugs against it.
 
> 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.

I've found evolution 2 and 2.2 to be very stable, the gnome components
it integrates with less so.
 
> 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,

Its about 1000 email and I still use evolution (via IMAP) it doesn't
talk to spamcop, but it does talk to SpamAssassin, even over IMAP
which is nice.

Thunderbird over IMAP seems to work well here, and i've seen none of
the issues you are talking about. (and doesn't Thunderbird have its
own inbuilt Bayesian Filtering?) Out of curiosity did you change
outbound smtp when switching to IMAP? It won't fix whats in you
Outbox, but I recently had an issue where a content filter appending a
signature buggered the envelope formatting.

That said - for gui, KMail appears to be the other mailer of choice
and has the required functionality, and you hould be able to get that
running within gnome. For text based mail mutt is pretty good, though
it had some quirks with IMAP mail last time I checked.

Cheers

Carl G