On 04/05/2007 07:01 AM somebody named Matthew Stringer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using Thunderbird on my Suse Desktop for years but have grown ever
> more frustrated with it's unreliability which seems to get worse with every
> update.
>
> Main symptoms are it randomly fails to download mail, just sits there and
> times out (POP3 or IMAP), I know there's nothing wrong with the mail server
> and using telnet or another client on the same machine proves this. Or I'll
> send a mail and it'll spend an age copying it to the sent items folder where
> it'll time out saying it couldn't do this (no explanation why), try it again
> and it'll be OK.
>
> If I try and re-install it, things improve but it's not long before it's
> struggling again.
>
> I use it on an MS box too for my personal mail and it's fine, but on 2
> openSUSE 10.2 machines with KDE it's hopeless.
>
> I've decided to bin this and try something else, possibly Evolution, is it
> possible to import my mail from Thunderbird into this?
>
> What mail clients do the folks on here recommend for Linux?
>
> Regards
>
> Matthew
Three or four years ago I tested five or six different email clients and
decided on thunderbird. My main considerations were ease of setup, ease
of use, number and quality of useful functions. One must-have for me
was the ability to access multiple email accounts via IMAPS. This ruled
out emacs' several offerings; since I'm a long-time emacs user and
really wanted to use this for email too, this was a major
disappointment. Sylpheed was good at IMAPS, but not so good with other
key features (IIRC, attachments were a PITA). Pine, an app I used for
years, was a headache to configure for multiple IMAPS accounts.
Evolution crashed too much. I don't recall my dissatisfaction with
mail/nail. Bottom line: Thunderbird was clearly the best of the bunch.
So I've now been using it for three or four years and it's been stable
and functional. There's a lot of nice add-ons for it too. I haven't
noticed any problems accessing mail servers and I'm plowing through
thousands of emails per day; I'm in Cleveland (OH) and my mail servers
are in Chicago, Portland OR, and who knows where else... due to the
magic of the net, it doesn't matter. I also read/write emails
occasionally at cybercafes. You might want to look harder at your
thunderbird network configurations. If using broadband, give your ISP a
call to find out if crappy packets are piling up on their side of your
modem. This was a problem for me for awhile. Clearing that made a big
speed difference for me.
I'm not religiously fervent about tbird. Big parts of it need more
work. Managing addressbooks is a pain, sometimes impossible. I'd like
to be able to do more configuration of the keyboard in the composer and
elsewhere... so, like pine, I wouldn't have to use the mouse so much.
The composer has no native way to insert a file... that's ridiculous.
And there's other bogusities. But like I said at top, I've found it the
best of the bunch. YMMV.
hth,
ken
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