Comments on: good, free, open source email client with IMAP and POP

Question: good, free, open source email client with IMAP and POP

signal — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:10:18 -0800

What is a good, free, hopefully Open Source email client which can handle both Pop and Imap protocols. Have been using Thunderbird, Mozilla and The Bat!, not too happy with any of their Imap implementations, though I love Mozilla/FB's bayes filtering.

By: DrJohnEvans

DrJohnEvans — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:58:19 -0800

What specific needs do you have for your IMAP implementation? I've been using Mozilla Mail quite heavily for IMAP stuff for the past two and a half years and have never found it particularly wanting.

By: thunder

thunder — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:25:35 -0800

You might try checking out Pegasus - I'm not sure about the IMAP, although I THINK it's in there, but it's definitely free.

By: signal

signal — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:35:50 -0800

DrJohnEvans: my main problems have to do with folders, not being able to rename/delete them, etc.,mostly in FB. In the bat, I can see the folders and message headers, but not message bodies (though i suspect I'm doing something wrong). Have Mozilla installed but haven't tested it extensively.

By: majick

majick — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:57:23 -0800

Thunderbird IMAP has a few minor flaws, especially in the performance area, but it really does work well for reading. Its ability to organize folders is, admittedly, not too hot.

KDE's KMail is a little goofy to configure for IMAP but it's been working great for me. I like it more than Thunderbird because it's actively hostile towards HTML messages. And yes, KDE does run on Windows, if that's your OS of choice.

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:03:17 -0800

Why can't you rename/delete the folders? The options are in the right-click menus. Did they just not work? I'll second DrJohnEvans' endorsement of Mozilla's IMAP; I've been using it for about as long on three to four accounts with lots of folders and have never been let down.

By: majick

majick — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:13:29 -0800

Also far be it from me to let a mail client thread go by without mentioning Mutt, pretty much the best MUA of all time, which does indeed run on Windows as well.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:59:05 -0800

Yeah, Mutt rocks. The level of configurability is amazing.

By: Jairus

Jairus — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:23:17 -0800

signal: Have you used The Bat 2.0? The 1.X IMAP implementation was terrible, but the main addition to 2.X was full IMAP support.

By: badstone

badstone — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:04:17 -0800

Mozilla has served me well for a long time now, and I have 100 or so IMAP folders, sometimes nested as deep as 5 levels.

By: namespan

namespan — Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:22:45 -0800

I can't seem to nest folders using Thunderbird -- would that be its fault, or the IMAP server's fault?