[nzlug] All email clients suck, no exceptions

[anru chen]

good point, we probably can make a non-sucker email client and make
$$$ form it :).

by the way, i think all those junk mail filters need periodic
trainning, so they know which email is legit.

regards,

anru

On 7/27/07, David McNab <david at rebirthing.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Firstly, this is a gentle warning to those of us in the Ubuntu/Gnome
> user community who are currently putting up with Evolution as their main
> email client.
>
> A couple of weeks ago, the junk mail filter in Evolution (by default, it
> uses bogomail), totally lost the plot and started junking about 50% of
> my legit emails.
>
> I was oblivious to it, till some people I was talking to on the phone
> asked me 'didn't you get my email?!'.
>
> A search through the junk mail folder revealed what had happened.
> Hundreds of legit messages, including mailing list traffic and critical
> business messages, had ended up among the spam.
>
> One of these days, someone might come up with an email client that
> doesn't totally suck in at least one major area:
>
>  - thunderbird - nice client on the whole, good ui and plugins
>    catalog, product of venerable Mozilla foundation. Downside: when
>    I upgraded my Ubuntu distro and installed a new Tbird version, it
>    failed to recognise my existing Tbird mail store and insisted on
>    me creating new accounts. When I tried importing my email from
>    the old store, it choked
>
>  - sylpheed-claws - very slick and fast client. Shame that on sending,
>    it claims to have sent the message successfully, but quite often
>    the message never gets delivered. On the positive side, it is one
>    of the few email clients where the authors show the respect and
>    courtesy to offer the ability to export the mail store
>
>  - sylpheed - dumbed down version of sylpheed-claws, missing several
>    crucial points of functionality
>
>  - pine - bearable - but suffers from the inherent problem in all
>    console clients - the inability to display attachments inline and
>    properly render HTML messages
>
>  - mutt - claims to suck less, but its curses user interface and lack of
>    folder tree display make it (at least for me) agony to use,
>    let alone the learning curve. I feel mutt is largely for folks who
>    take on mutt configuration as a hobby. Also, great for those who
>    still do most of their work on vt100/220 terminals.
>
>  - mozilla mail - admittedly I haven't given it much use, but one
>    assumes it would be pretty similar to tbird, given the lineage
>
>  - evolution - lest I forget - good client, good performance (as long
>    as one turns a blind eye to the memory footprint), but the good
>    performance only lasts for the first few months, until the message
>    store starts getting really big. Then it becomes a dog
>
> Maybe, just maybe, someone will come up with an email client with less
> than 80% of the suck factor of the existing clients
>
> </rant>
>
> Cheers
> David
>
>
>
>
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