Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3175 mails)

[Robert Smits <bob@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 05 April 2007 04:01, Matthew Stringer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using Thunderbird on my Suse Desktop for years but have grown
> ever more frustrated with it's unreliability which seems to get worse with
> every update.
>
> Main symptoms are it randomly fails to download mail, just sits there and
> times out (POP3 or IMAP), I know there's nothing wrong with the mail server
> and using telnet or another client on the same machine proves this. Or I'll
> send a mail and it'll spend an age copying it to the sent items folder
> where it'll time out saying it couldn't do this (no explanation why), try
> it again and it'll be OK.
>
> If I try and re-install it, things improve but it's not long before it's
> struggling again.
>
> I use it on an MS box too for my personal mail and it's fine, but on 2
> openSUSE 10.2 machines with KDE it's hopeless.
>
> I've decided to bin this and try something else, possibly Evolution, is it
> possible to import my mail from Thunderbird into this?
>
> What mail clients do the folks on here recommend for Linux?
>

I would recommend kmail/kontact that comes with every KDE desktop. It has a 
lot of features, integrates a calendar, addressbook, news reader and rss 
feed, and even syncs to my Palm Tungsten E.

Kmail can import a wide variety of formats of mail, including eudora's mbox 
format. (Eudora is one of the few reasonably well behaved Windows email 
clients that actually conform to unix norms).


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