What is a good email program other than evolution for ubuntu

[madokie]

I don't like evolution so what is the alternatives. I've been using outlook but I want to get away from micro$oft TIA

[RoyGBiv]

1. Thunderbird ...

It's a Mozilla product and is Outlook-ish.

I think it's already in the repositories. Just use Synaptic and search for thunderbird.

[madokie]

2. Thanks

I've got it installed and trying to figure it out now. I went ahead and removed evolution as I'm pretty sure I won't be using it. :hi:

[RoyGBiv]

4. Never liked Evolution myself ...

It comes off as ... I dunno ... cheap, and I don't mean in price. I know people that love it. To each his own.

Thunderbird has customization options similar to Firefox. There are a couple of extensions for Thunderbird you may want if you're accustomed to Outlook. Together they allow you to use Thunderbird with calender functions and integrate that with a Google Calender.

You need both:

Lightning for Thunderbird and Provider for Google Calender

Here's a page with detailed instructions on setting it up to work with Google Calender.

http://bfish.xaedalus.net/2007/04/stay-in-sync-with-gcal-and-thunderbird/

Ignore the Windows specific stuff.

If you'd just like the calender and don't care about synching it with Google, you only need Lightning.

Adding an extension to Thunderbird is a bit different from Firefox since you can't just click the button and have it install automatically. What you'll have to do is download the extension, save it somewhere, then go into Thunderbird, under Tools > AddOns then click the Install button and navigate to the directory where you save the extension you want to install. When I added Lightning, I had to restart Thunderbird, then go back into AddOns, click on Enable for the Lightning extension, then restart again. The second step isn't usually required. I dunno if this is an error with the packaging or just something that happened to me.

In Linux, there are a couple of system requirements for it to work. Mint has them already installed, and I imagine Ubuntu does as well. The one that may be missing is a package called libstdc++5. If you want to try this out, do this from a command line first:

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5

If it's already installed, it'll just say so. If not, it will add it, and you'll be good to go.

[pokerfan]

5. I guess it's small and helps Canonical fit everything on one CD

Same reasoning behind some of their other choices I suppose. Transmission is pretty bare bones bit-torrent client as well and I'm not a fan of Rhythmbox either but fortunately there are plenty of alternatives in the repositories.

[RoyGBiv]

6. Probably right ...

Not being on that end of things, I tend to forget that they have distribution concerns that are beyond my experience. It makes sense too. This is a common complaint about SuSE. The damn install is friggin' enormous 'cause it has so much on the install discs. One might argue this is a positive feature, but this is where I start to agree with the "too many choices" critics. If I didn't know what some of those things were already, I'd be totally lost. I mean, why in the WORLD do I need half a dozen media players installed by default?

I do not like Rhythmbox at all. I use Amarok. Some distros have really, really bad implementations of this, but Mint did it well. It only took me a few minutes to set up my favorite Internet radio stations/shoutcasts (mostly without ever having to leave the Amarok interface ... just a few stations that weren't pre-loaded) and catalog my personal music collection.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

3. Seamonkey does email too

[Dead_Parrot]

7. Mutt

:evilgrin:

[madokie]

8. As much as I hate to admit it

but back in those days I swore I'd never need an email account ever.

[Dead_Parrot]

9. Happy days...

Before this modern web thing.

Find me on comp.sci.bugger-this-new-fangled-html-bollocks.

:)

[madokie]

10. I googled that

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=comp.sci.bugger-this-new-fangled-html-bollocks.&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=8ec9ea851cee2c5b

:rofl:

[Dead_Parrot]

11. Lol. Some interesting stuff there... nt