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I am looking for a replacement for thunderbird. Do not want a full suite, just a mail reader. any suggestions/

Running MX18.2 on a dell precision 6400 8GB memory

Siles

Claws Mail

Mailspring is pretty good. Not in the repos but, there is a .deb on their sight.

Siles wrote: Thu Apr 25, 2019 6:29 pm I am looking for a replacement for thunderbird. Do not want a full suite, just a mail reader. any suggestions/

Using Claws Mail , don't miss Thundebird. HTML emails if needed I do view in dillo.
So as @GuiGuy , I also do recommend ClawsMail , fast small, foot-print. Extrem good "learning" spam/junk filter, after short "training" period most junk goes automatically into Junk-folder to be quicky reviewed later for deletion.

Thanks for the suggestions.Will try them out and see what i Like best.

Siles

This article provides a very brief overview of nine email clients.
I recently switched from TB to Evolution (in stable repo). Setting up my 2 gmail and 2 yahoo accounts was easy. Seems to be working OK so far.

I quite like Claws Mail although a major annoyance is the inability to write HTML email, all because of some ridiculous dogmatic nonsense on the developers' part (they won't even accept patches for such a fix the last time I heard). I'm no fan of HTML mail myself (especially the corporate messages that take up 500KB just to say hello), but occasionally I have to write it in response to someone elses' messages, the least they could let me do is write it in the form of HTML tags with the right MIME type. Otherwise it's a very good client and I've been using it for almost 10 years.

If anyone trying Claws Mail finds it too plain for their taste, they should have a look at the plugins available.Admittedly, as AK-47 says, sending html is not available .

Can any of these auto-start when I log in, run in the background and notify me of new email via the Notification Area in the panel?

I autostart T'bird and evolution with no problem. I think almost anything placed by its application name placed in 'autostart' ought to work.

I personally have such large email archives/ files (7+GB) that the only mail that really works are the 2 mentioned above. I've tried everything else and 'nada'...

I'm in the process of replacing Mozilla Firefox & Thunderbird.

Firefox was replaced with GNU IceCat for the most part... It was unaffected by Mozilla's Suspicious Certificate Scandal. Coincidental, Maybe? Google is thinking of limiting or killing ad blockers. It could be a Brave new web where everyone else's ad is blocked except for their own? Yes, I was wearing my armadillo shaped tin-foil hat. (A geek twist on The Dukes Of Hazard Movie )

Trying to replace Thunderbird w/ Claws Mail, imported Mail worked fine, the address book is hit & miss.
What is the trick to exporting/importing T-Bird LDIF file to CM so all the fields are recognized?

Kreative wrote: Fri May 10, 2019 10:51 pm Trying to replace Thunderbird w/ Claws Mail, imported Mail worked fine, the address book is hit & miss.
What is the trick to exporting/importing T-Bird LDIF file to CM so all the fields are recognized?

Precisely what is the problem, please?

Exporting the TB address book, according to googlefu:

"Select the address book you want to export. Then click Tools again in the Address Book and select Export... while keeping your address book selected. Save the file somewhere convenient as an LDIF file with whatever filename you wish."

You can then import it in Claws Mail.

I think the OP did that but is saying that not all fields were imported or something like that? That's why I was hoping he'd clarify what the actual problem is rather than just saying it's hit and miss.

Seamonkey and Vivaldi are both Internet suites that have really good e-mail clients. Seamonkey is hosted at Mozilla for now but it's no longer a Mozilla project. Vivaldi is not fully open-source, but "freeware."

Claws is a good e-mail client and quite lite of system resources. But I'm not sure other than importing TB's lDIF file there is anyway to get all the fields imported.
It's been a while since of used CM. You may want to give Evolution a try though it's pretty heavy on resources. Seamonkey's e-mail is basically TB and will import all TB address book without problems. This link maybe of help also : https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/

I do not see it as a replacement. Now that I got it figured out, I kinda like it over Tbird.
One thing is that it puts multiple email accounts into just 1 Inbox.
Instead of having to look thru all the duplications that Tbird does, it combines all of it into just one.
So all your Gmail Yahoo Outlook and my Spectrum Email all dump into the same space.
Images work fine, in fact better.
While it starts out with all these sound effects for notification I soon found where that can be changed in settings, and turned them mostly off.

Annoying sounds are just that, annoying, and so are popups.
So I just shut off notifications.

Now the new emails just get highlighted and that is fine.

Each source of the email colorizes them.

Its a lot better because it is NOT complicated.
I recommend giving it a try.

It also loads up much faster than Tbird. Both after initial start and later on.

So while about the same in terms of setting it up, much less to configure and IMHO just overall a better client.

I DO see it as the very BEST Email for MX-LINUX. It is on my fastest email app I have ever ever ever used.

After restarting MX Linux I click on it to load.
Total Load Time is under 1-2 second.
It combines all Inboxes together.

But who cares as this is the best for a simple ;ightweight beautiful EMAIL app.

I can only believe that it must load ahead in Autostart to acheive such fast loading times.

I strongly URGE it to be incorporated into the Install and certainly into the Package Manager in the >Email section.

Simple to install, simpler than thunderbird to setup. Adopts to your theme.

Mailspring will never be a suitable replacement for Thunderbird whilst we continue to support 32-bit machines because it is only available in a 64-bit version.

Chris

kb5050 wrote: Mon Mar 09, 2020 8:14 pm I DO see it as the very BEST Email for MX-LINUX. It is on my fastest email app I have ever ever ever used.

After restarting MX Linux I click on it to load.
Total Load Time is under 1-2 second.
It combines all Inboxes together.

Well, it depends...
I installed Mailspring today in MX19.1 and it is super fast, yes.
But unfortunately, only gmail works.
gmx cannot be added.
And no other of my other imap-e-mail-accounts can be added.
( mail.de , riseup.net, gmx.de )
When adding these accounts, Mailspring says "successfully added", but it never shows them.

So sorry, I will uninstall Mailspring now. It is of no use for my e-mail accounts.

Hello,
How about "Sylpheed"? It is available from Debian stable repository.
Sylpheed adopts mail-holder system, while Thunderbird uses mbox system.

I recently moved back to Evolution. I used Thunderbird on and off for a long time but I find it buggy. I never know if I can access my contacts or my mail is currently synced. I sync everything on on my phone as well as my laptop and have seen messages come in on my phone and not my laptop until sometime later, even if I manually get messages nothing happens. This has always been the case for me. I think it's in the plugin mechanism.

I wanted a full suite(email, calendar, contacts) just to keep things simple. The only real option was Evolution unless you install all the 'K' stuff or go outside the distribution. What is nice is that Evolution is not following the Gnome/GTK3 appearance. It uses the XFCE windows.