![]() ![]() But, according to Techcrunch, the Mozilla Foundation is pulling its resources from the project. Mozilla’s Thunderbird e-mail client has been my go-to free e-mail client when I decided I wanted an alternative to using solely Web-based mail interfaces. UPDATE : If you’re on Windows, you might also want to look at Inky. If you need calendar or other integration, you’ll probably need to keep hunting. Geary is the clear winner for me and could be a good e-mail alternative if you’re hunting for one on Ubuntu. I can see a Delete option on the toolbar now but for awhile, it was not clear to me how to delete a message. The navigation for the app is simple and there appear to be some functions that are context sensitive. Google Mail accounts will show your labels as folders and you can look at accounts separately or as a group. Geary E-mail is a clean, multiple account client for Ubuntu users and a good alternative to Thunderbird and Zimbra. It can handle multiple IMAP and POP3 accounts and provides the same sort of unified inbox as other modern e-mail programs. You won’t find the same extendibility for calendars and the like but it’s a great e-mail client. It has a very clean interface and feels more modern than Thunderbird. My current Ubuntu e-mail client is Geary Mail, which you can find in the Ubuntu Software Center. I have not tried to run it with Crossover Linux or Wine but that would be a possibility, I suppose. On Windows, I like the Inky client but they are only on Mac and Windows, not Ubuntu. I’ve never cared for Evolution, although I have tried it at various times over the past few years and on different versions of Ubuntu. Where Thunderbird excelled was to leave all of that to extensions. It feels old, though, and some of the information panes feel either poorly implemented or clunky – social media in particular. It’s easy to install on Ubuntu and it has some flexibility in theming and layout. Zimbra, on the other hand, seems to be in pretty good shape. But it also doesn’t seem to be getting a lot of attention. Thunderbird is a great e-mail app, in part because it had an extension community similar to the Firefox Web browser. I was reminded about this post when ResearchBuzz posted about a Thunderbird security flaw last week. ![]() You can see my thoughts on Thunderbird and Zimbra Desktop. Ubuntu e-mail clients still call to me, though, as I like having something that provides a single view to multiple accounts. I’ve mostly shifted to Web-based e-mail because I found that, when moving between Windows and Ubuntu machines, it was easier than using two different clients.
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