Email clients?

[jgrafton]

Thunderbird 2 finally hit portage recently, and I'm now even more annoyed with it. Some of you may know that I abandoned Firefox for Opera several months ago, and I have been quite happy with this decision ever since. I've also been looking for a better email client, but have thus far failed.

Basic requirements:
- Should be reasonably fast. This is why I'm getting annoyed with Thunderbird.
- Needs to run in Linux
- Needs to support IMAP
- Needs to support multiple email accounts (e.g. Jeffsweb and CMU) fairly nicely
- Should be stable

I have other more subtle features desired, but these are my basic requirements.

I've tried Opera's built-in email client, but it fails for one simple reason: it collects all emails from all IMAP folders into a single inbox. This is a major problem considering how CMU handles organizational bboards. So that's a no-go.

I hear lots of people raving about mutt, but it seems scary and I'm not sure how well it supports multiple accounts, anyhow.

Ideas?

Comments

ducks

[betaphen.livejournal.com]

telnet supports all of your requirements.

also, if you haven't seen it: http://www.kunxi.org/files/software-engineering-nightmare/o_software-project.jpg

[27thletter.livejournal.com]

XimianNovell Evolution (GNOME's email client) worked very well for me.

[jgrafton]

I used Evolution in the long-distant past... it doesn't seem like a step in the "more lightweight than Thunderbird" direction, though...

[27thletter.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-mail_clients

I'm sure something's there.

[weev.livejournal.com]

Outlook is the best MUA ever.

[xornofxorn.livejournal.com]

I've always used Pine, personally, though I don't know if it supports your things. It's easy to use, though, and very lightweight.

[brpxqzme.livejournal.com]

If mutt didn't support multiple accounts very well, you probably wouldn't have heard the raving about it.

Agreed on the scary part, though. Is it a mystery why I avoid e-mail if at all possible?

[(Anonymous)]

Sylpheed? Or Sylpheed-claws if you require more functionality, but sylpheed's IMAP handling is far superior, as I recall. I haven't noticed speed problems, but one annoying thing is that it seems to run network and gui code in the same thread, so the interface can stall on network problems (it does timeout, but it can be a few seconds). And it's below opera, X, firefox, and gaim in memory usage on my box right now.

I tried mutt for awhile, but I got rather annoyed by it being (adamantly) just an MUA and not an MTA. pine is awesome, too, but eh.

-Deason

[teratic.livejournal.com]

the acountname=userid+ trick in combination with a clever mix of folder subscriptions might make Opera's email more feasible for you. I'm not familiar with Opera's stuff to be sure though.