I’ve tried a lot of email clients. I’ve tried all of the graphical ones listed here so far and I have to say that in my opinion Thunderbird is the least bad.
Pros:
Option to view entire thread/conversation.
Tree view of messages.
Really good HTML rendering. (As it uses firefox’s engine)
Acceptable search.
View source option.
Addons for any missing features.
Multi-account support. (It is amazing to be able to move between two IMAP accounts by dragging and dropping your messages)
Excellent offline support. I download all of my mail locally.
Cons:
Slow. Overall it is responsive for me but locks up somewhat frequently for a second or two.
The HTML editor is ok at best.
The best runner up I found was KMail but I ended up not using it because I heavily rely on the option to view an entire conversation that isn’t supported.
I’ve tried a lot of email clients. I’ve tried all of the graphical ones listed here so far and I have to say that in my opinion Thunderbird is the least bad.
Pros:
Cons:
The best runner up I found was KMail but I ended up not using it because I heavily rely on the option to view an entire conversation that isn’t supported.