Ah, let's see what the house wine is...

[elfs]

Thunderbird!

Ah, and it's a good week, too. I wonder if I can make endorsements. Take one: "Hello, Elf Sternberg for Thunderbird Wine." Take Two: "Hello, Elf Thunderbird for Sternberg Wine." Take Three: "Bwahahahahah! My Minions are about to be unleashed. >hic<"

I switched from Evolution to Thunderbird. Evolution is the premier mail client for Linux, but on my tiny laptop it was a complete and utter pig, running multiple processes (including multiple, independent instances of the Perl VM running spamd), and in 128MB there's just no way I could run it effectively without shutting everything else down. So, I tried shifting to Thunderbird. Thunderbird is actually bigger in individual instances, but it's a single instance running multiple threads, so its time management is better. I don't need in a home appliance the "to-do" list (I have DevToDo for that, and Instiki, which I like), or the super-duper address book with contact list, or all of the other features. I just need a reliable mail client. Thunderbird is that client. It's fast, it handles spam very well, and it's much faster and lighter than Evolution, overall. Oh, and it integrates with PGP very well.

Comments

[kenshardik]

Red sand between my toes.
Summer vacation in outer space.

(That was a Martian haiku.)

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad someone recognized it. And now a joke for all the telepaths in the audience...

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

*gigglesnort* /me gets the joke. :)

T-bird is also a good RSS reader, so I'm told.

[mundens.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but we've heard that one.

And yeas T-bird is good for RSS and news. It picks up feeds from LJ and blogspot almost automatically.

I use Thunderbird on multiple machines and OS's here on my family network (currently 8 machines attached, I have four boys and one wife to give tech support to!) and it's cool 'cos people can choose any machine on the network and get the same mail client regardless of which OS it's running, and as it's all talking to a Cyrus IMAP server, they can read from any machine in the network.

And to get it out of the way, ob. fanboy :

Hi, Elf!
You introduced me to Shirow many years (ten? fifteen?) ago in a Pendor story, back when we used UUCP to get email and newsfeeds and I've met many interesting people through both of those interests since! Just want to say thanks!

[kenshardik]

Yeah, I got that album and Steve Martin's "A Wild And Crazy Guy" around the time they came out... on vinyl! My mother was none too thrilled once she heard some of the material on those albums....

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

Ever consider pine? plain'n'simple, but kinky in other ways: roles, filters, and it's a furniture polish news client as well

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

If you're gonna go that route, take the time to learn Mutt. It's a lot like the later versions of vi.... arcane, and occasionally a bit of a bastard to set up, but dayum, you can make it, umm, sit up and beg? Mutt also does Maildir out of the box, which is another one of those things that's a pain in the ascii until you actually get a successful implementation, and then you wonder why you ever messed with mbox....