Friday, February 6, 2015

5 Best Email Clients For Linux Environments

Dedicated email clients are present for both Windows and Mac users in the form of Outlook and Mail, respectively. What about Linux? Well, Linux is actually richer when it comes to email clients. Among loads of open source email clients for Linux, here are the five best for you. Before using anyone of them, you need to remember, each has its own pros and cons and it's you who can best decide which email client is best for you:







1. Mozilla Thunderbird

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free application which is very easy to set up and customise. It has many useful features and some of them are not even present in the likes of Microsoft Outlook. Thunderbird gets better with every update and it also works perfectly fine in sync with Windows Outlook email client. As it's completely open source, it's highly customisable and it also offers lots of add-ons and plug-ins which actually make it more awesome. You can also get support for this application from lots of related forums. It enables to choose the location of your data, chat with users, integrate calendar and so on. Its search feature, though, requires more improvement.

2. Claws Mail

It's both an email client and a news reader, based on GTK+. Its key highlights include fast response time, beautiful interface, easy configuration, loads of features, stability etc. New users become familiar to this client easily because of its appearance and interface. Almost all the commands are accessible with the keyboard. The messages rae managed in the standard MH format and this client also allows importing emails from other clients and export them too. Its extra functionalities include RSS aggregator, calendar and extra plug-ins.

3. Evolution

Evolution is like the grandfather to all email clients in Linux. It supports a wide range of protocols in comparison to other email clients. It also integrates with the GNOME desktop and allows syncing with Gmail accounts for address book and calendar operations. On Evolution, setting up exchange mail boxes is not an easy task and its performance is not much liked when it comes to downloading emails. Though it has improved a lot in past few years but still it comes after Thunderbird. Evolution works only on Linux, though it has a Mac version which is not updated regularly. It's only speed where Evolution lags from others.

4. KMail

KMail is rich in features but quite complex to configure and use. If you want to use an email client with just one account, then KMail may be a good option for you. But if you have more than one email account, then it will give you a tough time to manage all oif them under KDE. But still KMail's tools are simply excellent. But as it's very tough to configure, we believe when it was developed users were not in the developers' minds. So KMail is extremely rich in features and customisable too but while configuring you really need some best wishes with you.

5. Sylpheed

This email client, which is cross-platform and works on Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and other Unix-like systems, is quite simple, lightweight and rich in features. It provides an interesting user-interface and it's also designed for keyboard-oriented operation. It means this email client can be used by beginners to experts. GTK+GUI toolkit is being used by Sylpheed and it's a free software distributed under the GNU GPL. You can freely use, alter and redistribute it too under the license. 

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