Re: [PLUG] So, That's it for Thunderbird

[Casey Bralla <MailList@nerdworld.org>]

On Saturday, July 07, 2012 7:27:47 AM Eric at Lucii.org wrote:
> This is somewhat depressing:
> 
> "We have come to the conclusion that continued innovation on
> Thunderbird is not the best use of our resources given our
> ambitious organizational goals."
> 
> http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/06/so-thats-it-for-thunderbird/
> 
> [sarcasm] Oh, GREAT [end sarcasm]
> 
> I would revert to mutt but too much of my current email has some html
> elements that don't do so well [understatement] when rendered on a
> terminal.
> 
> KMail?  Evolution?  Outlook in a VM?  [spits, washes mouth out with strong
> soap.]
> 
> What's a Linux geek to do?
> 
> Eric


For a while, my KMail on Gentoo was crashing all the time (probably due to a 
library dependancy problem), so I explored other eMail clients.  The bottom 
line to me was that KMail was far and away the best of the lot.  Next best was 
claws, which I used until I finally ditched Gentoo in resigned disgust (it had 
been soooo wonderful for years).

I also tried Thunderbird, and found it adequate, but nothing spectacular.  
Making it more "community maintained" might actually help.

BTW, I'm back with Debian Testing and KMail.  Ahhhhhh...... sweet relief.






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