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Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck

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On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 23:06:16 +0200
No Spam <mailinglists@high5.alioth.uberspace.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> So it is 12 years later;
> 
> has someone found something working?
> 
> greets
> 
> J

More years ago, BeOS' email client was perfect for me. It use separate files and made very liberal use of BFS' equivalent of attributes to sort and organize messages. But BeOS development stopped. I briefly (*very* briefly) went back to Windows. Then discovered that Linux was ready for *my* desktop. SuSE worked for a while. Then I think it was etch that pulled me over to Debian. And there I found kmail which worked fine for me for a good number of years. It did everything I wanted and rarely displayed problems.

About the time of squeeze or wheezy, kmail (and KDE for that matter) began slipping over the edge into the abyss. I finally found XFCE which is about as simple and is as useful as KDE3 was. Then I started searching and trying various email clients. I didn't like anything. Then I found claws-mail. It isn't perfect; it has a quirk or three. But, by and large, it's as usable and stable as kmail was lo those many years ago.

But when Haiku (open source remake of BeOS) is ready for prime time, I will probably switch back to it. Especially since I can run most any OS I need in a KVM, and my 500-line KVM bash script lets me configure and fire up a VM in about two minutes.

So yes, I found something: claws-mail.

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Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck No Spam <mailinglists@high5.alioth.uberspace.de> - 2016-08-29 00:10 +0200
  Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-08-29 03:20 +0200
  Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck "Neal P. Murphy" <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu> - 2016-08-29 03:30 +0200
    Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-08-29 08:20 +0200
      Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck Johann Spies <johann.spies@gmail.com> - 2016-08-29 08:40 +0200
        Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> - 2016-08-29 16:30 +0200
        Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com> - 2016-09-02 11:30 +0200
      Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-08-29 09:00 +0200
        Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-29 09:10 +0200
      Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-29 09:00 +0200
  Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-08-29 10:50 +0200
  Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> - 2016-08-29 11:00 +0200
    Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-08-29 11:20 +0200
      Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck brian <brian@meadows.pair.com> - 2016-08-29 12:20 +0200
        Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-08-29 13:10 +0200
          Pulling mail for local access (was Re: [Rant] The Endless Search  for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2016-08-29 13:40 +0200
            Re: Pulling mail for local access (was Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck) Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-29 15:10 +0200
        Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-08-29 14:50 +0200
        Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-08-29 15:30 +0200
          Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-08-29 16:10 +0200
    Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-08-29 14:30 +0200
  Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-08-29 13:30 +0200
    Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-08-29 14:50 +0200
  Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck "Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희)" <soyeomul@doraji.xyz> - 2016-08-29 17:10 +0200

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