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). -- bob@rsmits.ca "I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter." -InfoWorld Editor Nicholas Petreley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org