[Discuss] FOSS email that doesn't suck -- does such a thing exist?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> writes:

> On 03/28/2013 10:58 AM, Rich Pieri wrote:
>> An interesting note about Thunderbird:
>>
>> Someone with a clue implemented a maildir storage backend for the
>> local cache. This quietly entered release as a beta feature in
>> version 12. This might make T-Bird worth trying again.
>>
> Thunderbird currently meets all my needs, but it occasionally
> freezes. I've manually deleted all index files and compacted all
> folders, but I don't think the freeze is due to a corrupted mbox
> folder. Converting from mbox to maildir would eliminate the mbox
> issue. I considered Evolution, but I didn't like it the last time I
> evaluated email clients. I used Claws for a while, but I do like to
> send html email to some lists and people.

Unfortunately Evolution is the only app I have found that will allow me
to interact with my work's Exchange server.  They have IMAP turned off,
so my choices are basically MAPI or ActiveSync.

-derek

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