Alternative E-mail Clients

gary4gar · 04-03-2008, 04:00 PM

Please Suggest some Alternative E-mail Clients. i tried Evolution & Thunderbird, they are very basic.

I need a client similar to Gmail's web interface or at least it should have these features.

Threaded mode: Good for reading Mailling lists
Auto completion of e-mail addresses from address book

is there any client with above said features ?
or We need to make one

Rahim · 04-03-2008, 04:06 PM

Auto Completion of email address feature is already in Thunderbird

mehulved · 04-03-2008, 04:20 PM

mutt? or mutt-ng?

Maybe squirrelmail, with gmail like theme?

**kalpik** · 04-03-2008, 04:30 PM

http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/

ray|raven · 04-03-2008, 04:48 PM

How abt Claws-Mail?
Also Opera has a mail client inbuilt.
And AFAICR it has some sort of threading capabilities.

Regards,
ray

ThinkFree · 04-03-2008, 05:51 PM

Bat professional is good but its not free

gary4gar · 04-03-2008, 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rahimveron

Auto Completion of email address feature is already in Thunderbird

what about threaded mode, i need similar to that we have in our forum.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kalpik

http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/

it looks Good, Thanks
but its not what i am looking for as i have to fetch e-mail from multiple email accounts.

Quote:

Originally Posted by asnvin

Bat professional is good but its not free

Is it available under linux?

Quote:

Originally Posted by rayraven

How abt Claws-Mail?
Also Opera has a mail client inbuilt.
And AFAICR it has some sort of threading capabilities.

Regards,
ray

will try Claws-Mail & post back.
btw, it has nice punch line "It bites"

Quote:

Originally Posted by mehulved

mutt? or mutt-ng?

Maybe squirrelmail, with gmail like theme?

Both doesn't suit my needs, as mutt is CLI based.
& SquirrelMail mail is web based

infra_red_dude · 04-03-2008, 07:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gary4gar

Please Suggest some Alternative E-mail Clients. i tried Evolution & Thunderbird, they are very basic.

What???!!!!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by gary4gar

I need a client similar to Gmail's web interface or at least it should have these features.

Threaded mode: Good for reading Mailling lists
Auto completion of e-mail addresses from address book

Both the features are already present in Thunderbird!! The auto-complete works by default.

For threaded view, configure your gmail a/c with thunderbird (I dunno if it works for pop3 but it works great for imap).

To enable thread view, goto the folder and see the last button beside the fields: subject, sender etc. The button will haf a drop down arrow on it. Click the Button > Enable thread.

Now a new field would appear in the first column, something which looks like a ladder/tree. Click it and voila! you haf the thread view.

No need to "make an email client" with these features. Mozilla has been kind enuf to do that for us

For GMail config in Thunderbird see here: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/20..._the_ulti.html

gary4gar · 05-03-2008, 09:15 AM

right now in thunderbird i am getting this type of view
http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/show...ded#post766373
whereas i want Linear Mode
http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/show...ear#post766373

infra_red_dude · 06-03-2008, 01:14 AM

How can it be linear mode and yet threaded when there are so many mails? Will you not lose track of it?

gary4gar · 06-03-2008, 01:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by infra_red_dude

How can it be linear mode and yet threaded when there are so many mails? Will you not lose track of it?

The same way wile GMail web client behaves.

It hides older conversations

Choto Cheeta · 06-03-2008, 01:32 AM

if you are on Linux then why not Round Cube

GNUrag · 06-03-2008, 12:19 PM

All mail clients suck. Mutt just sucks less.

ray|raven · 06-03-2008, 02:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Choto Cheeta

if you are on Linux then why not Round Cube

Nice link there mate,
Its the best webmail UI i've seen lately.
Should try this sometime.

Regards,
ray

FilledVoid · 06-03-2008, 04:18 PM

Am I the only unfortunate one who uses Evolution here and I definitely do not find it basic :S

mehulved · 06-03-2008, 09:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GNUrag

All mail clients suck. Mutt just sucks less.

Now convince that to kalpik.

infra_red_dude · 07-03-2008, 02:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by exx_2000

Am I the only unfortunate one who uses Evolution here and I definitely do not find it basic :S

For me, the only thing that sucks is the spam filter. Otherwise it provides a mail client with organizer too. Thats actually good than hafing 2 separate programs.

praka123 · 07-03-2008, 02:45 PM

kmail-kde user should try

FilledVoid · 07-03-2008, 04:53 PM

Quote:

For me, the only thing that sucks is the spam filter. Otherwise it provides a mail client with organizer too. Thats actually good than hafing 2 separate programs.

Definitely , I agree. It does serve my purpose so I'm happy with it although I wouldn't mind trying Thunderbird.