[nzlug] All email clients suck, no exceptions

[ronw at paradise.net.nz]

Just my 2 cents worth
I use Evolution on SuSe 10.2 works fine. For spam I use Popfile (Sourceforge)
which I think is the best spam detector out there. Once you have it trained it
hums along nicely. I have it file all spam in a trash folder and every day or so
I check the contents. It only takes a second and then I delete the contents.
I tar up the evolution . folder every few months and store it offline and then
delete the current contents.


Quoting David McNab <david at rebirthing.co.nz>:

> 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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Ron Wilson