![]() It can do anything I need and had been developed continuously for years now. The consequence was my union with a good old friend, enter The Bat!. Claws Mail seems to be something like Thunderbird in hideous clothes.No-go: No support for OpenPGP/GnuPG available (or would it require obscure plug-ins or something?), so it's out. Also the handling needs getting used to for a while. I generally like Pegasus Mail but it crashes reproducably - I had reported the issue, but AFAICS it has not been fixed for months.The choice (this is a good moment to remind you that I primarily use Windows) was appropriately complicated: I considered it - and Opera - too hard to use because of the different moduses - mail, browser. (I don't know whether SeaMonkey can handle GnuPG 2 or not - on the other hand I never really was into the Mozilla Suite either. NNTP was optional, I could as well use Opera, still Thunderbird, SeaMonkey or the like for that. My list of requirements for a decent replacement was rather short: GnuPG 2 support and a threaded view (for my subscribed mailing lists) were quite the only needed features. Again: A certain number of IMAP accounts with very different configurations are soliciting my more or less regular attention.) Aside from my sane paranoia about Google's evilness: I would really miss the convenience of a decent desktop mail client. (And don't even dare to throw in Google Mail, that ads-partner-polluted piece of something. I have to manage more than ten separate IMAP accounts by now - try to manage them per web mail clients. The first result, due to convenience reasons, was to drop web mail services off my list of potential replacements. However, to find a decent one proved to be very difficult. ![]() One fine day after Thunderbird 11 or something I accepted that a replacement was needed. The fact that now and then there were essential improvements among the changes, like the new user interface of Thunderbird 17, did not compensate that for me. the possibility to show/hide e-mail headers dynamically - disappeared from the core application and had to be added via third-party extensions. Also the application felt quite sedate at times. ![]() #Rssowl activity update#The faster update cycle bothered Enigmail so it broke every few weeks. ![]() Suddenly Thunderbird turned out to be fractious about IMAP management. I seem to have no luck with my chosen hosters.) Moreover it allowed my to use GnuPG and NNTP which went very well with my commitment to the German Pirate Party and similar occasions. I was rather contented with Mozilla Thunderbird, it did what it should, it was free, it was convenient and it did not even stumble about my preference for weird server configurations. I just did not really use e-mail back in the days. ( Early adopters, anyone?) Before they came up with it, I had been using Outlook Express and similar clients. My first half-decent mail client was Mozilla Thunderbird version 0.something. On other platforms I might probably come to a different conclusion.) (Preliminary note: I mainly work with Windows. So I'll just put it into a BBS where no one would ever flame me. I usually would blog things like this, but as most of my regular readers stick to webmail services nowadays, I would receive a ****storm and destructive comments at best. ![]()
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