{"id":815,"date":"2012-07-23T19:24:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T17:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patchlog.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2018-01-07T01:08:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T23:08:25","slug":"which-email-client-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patchlog.com\/linux\/which-email-client-for-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Which email client for Linux?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I've been a thunderbird user since firefox was named firebird. I was happy with it, I like the way you can easily search over all accounts, how you can archive messages in folders by year by simply hitting the \"a\" key, I like the threads and even the \"gmail\" conversations extension even if I don't use it. <\/p>\n

One problem with thunderbird is it became unusable when I added an old account which was accumulating mail up to over 170k messages. I know 170k messages is not realistic and no one should have so many messages in inbox but still this made me look for something better. <\/p>\n

First let's see what I'm looking for in an email client: <\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Easy global search like thunderbird<\/li>\n
  2. Archive folders and 1 key hit like thudnerbird \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n
  3. Easy to mark messages as Spam\/Junk with a single key hit, would be great to be able to mark multiple messages with a single key ( thunderbird doesn't have this ) <\/li>\n
  4. Message threads<\/li>\n
  5. And last but not least, be able to handle a lot of messages in a folder, don't have to be super fast but at least it shouldn't lock <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Here's what I tested so far:<\/p>\n

    Evolution<\/h2>\n

    This was a nice surprise.
    \nPro: Evolution downloaded 87k message headers in just a few seconds and had no problems with selecting all and moving around.
    \nCons: <\/p>\n

  6. No archives<\/li>\n
  7. It has global search but it's a bit harder to access<\/li>\n
  8. Harder junk marking ( shift+ctrl+j instead of just j )<\/li>\n
  9. Always asks if I want to accept a certificate that's not issued for the exact domain of my email server ( at startup ) <\/li>\n

    I could accept all the cons except for the lack of archiving.
    \nAnyone knows of a plugin that does archiving like thunderbird ? Please let me know!<\/p>\n

    Kmail<\/h2>\n

    Becomes almost unusable with a big inbox ( 87k), hard to select all messages <\/p>\n

    Pro: message list groups messages by year ( but this still doesn't beat yearly archives )
    \nCons: <\/p>\n