[Tfug] which mail clients do people use

[Quag7]

On Friday 02 March 2007 8:20 am, christopher floess wrote:
> What about kmail, any opinions on it?
>

I use kmail.  I used Evolution for a few years while using Gnome, and I 
switched to KDE some time ago, and decided that while Evolution did the job, 
it wasn't really all that important to me, so I tried kmail.

Evolution crashed periodically.  Kmail thus far has done everything I require; 
it catches spam, and I have 8 accounts I use and probably about 25 folders I 
filter into.  I have no complaints about it, really.  One thing it has been 
is stable - it's never crashed on me.  I'd like to compare the speed of it to 
Evolution but I switched to KDE when I upgraded my system from an old 1 GHz 
Celeron to this dual core system I'm on now, so it wouldn't be fair.

All of that being said, I think I'd be happy with any of the major mail 
clients.  As long as it filters, and can interface with anti-spam software, 
it's good enough for me.

The two things I haven't figured out are:

When a mail comes to a certain e-mail address and I go to reply, I want it to 
reply using the account that received it, rather than my "default" account.  
So for example, I moderate some mailing lists - when I respond to mod 
requests, I have to select the right account to reply with.  That's a little 
annoying; Evolution defaulted to the behavior I wanted - kmail doesn't.  I'm 
still digging to find a way to change the behavior to this.

The second thing is that there's a limit to rules per filter.  I have a filter 
for "personal" e-mail - a whitelist of sorts - I've had to create two or 
three filters to accomodate all the people I want to move into a "personal" 
folder.  That's a minor complaint.  I don't remember if Evolution had similar 
limits.

Beyond that, kmail works great.  If you're using KDE, there's no reason I can 
think of not to use it, but if you're not using KDE, there's nothing 
mindblowingly special about it either that would make it worth installing 
whatever kde and/or qt stuff it requires either.