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Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions?

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On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 09:58:04 +0300
Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sb, 04 iul 20, 21:24:27, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 15:38:38 -0600
> > Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > While trying to fix a broken Thunderbird/Enigmail installation on my
> > > wife's Windows laptop,...
> > 
> > Are you asking for advice for Windows or for Debian?
> > 
> > > I would welcome suggested alternatives. An additional desired feature,
> > > if known, would be any capability to ingest old messages from
> > > Thunderbird.
> > 
> > Claws-mail will do what you want, and then some. You may have to
> > configure the GPG connection, but such is life with Unix. It is
> > available for Windows, but that version usually lags the Linux version.
> 
> +1 for Claws-Mail.
> 
> It does lack support for composing HTML mails (on purpose), in case this 
> is needed.

And don't forget about Sylpheed (from which Claws was forked a long
time ago) - it's still going strong, has mature GPG support, and has
full mbox support (which another post in this thread mentioned is
Thunderbird's standard mail store). It also can't compose HTML mail,
though (also on purpose).-

Celejar

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    Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-05 12:00 +0200
      Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-07-05 14:30 +0200
  Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions? Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2020-07-05 00:50 +0200
  Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-07-05 05:30 +0200
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      Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions? Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2020-07-05 14:20 +0200
  Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions? Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net> - 2020-07-08 07:20 +0200

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