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An overview of FLOSS email clients

[ Thanks to libervisco for this link.
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“I may have done something bad, but what is interesting
is that if I ever opened it either with Apple Mail or Claws , the
mail would be displayed correctly and without data loss. For some
time I was exclusively on a Mac, which I still use only as a
laptop, and I used Thunderbird for my email. Aside these archival
issues I was not really happy with the overall look and feel of the
application and the beta of Thunderbird 3 failed to impress me.

“This is why I investigated email clients again when I started
to work on my main workstation that runs Fedora 10. I was
hesitating between going back to Thunderbird (after a nice trip by
Apple Mail) in spite of all my issues with it, returning to
Evolution, an application that I had used several years ago, the
intriguing Sylpheed / Claws twins, and even KMail.

“I finally picked up Claws, and so far I don’t regret it. But by
installing it, configuring and using this application, I learned a
couple of things about email clients. Let’s review the options I
had.”

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