Beginning Modern Unix by Manish Jain

Author:Manish Jain
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781484235287
Publisher: Apress

Thunderbird is not alone in its league, by any means. In fact, there is an equally good full-fledged client that has many devotees both under Unix and Windows: Sylpheed. Like Thunderbird, Sylpheed has its own address book, message filtering support, and can work together with spam/junk markers.

Another full-fledged client is Evolution, which has a clean-looking interface and its own calendar. Among X email programs, Evolution—originally created at Novell—is the oldest one and has a dedicated bunch of followers. When used alongside the evolution-ews package, Evolution can also connect to Microsoft Exchange servers.

There are lightweight email clients too. I would not like to bother with yet another list, but the one lightweight client I do recommend to readers to try is Geary. Among Unix applications I have seen, Geary has the most visually stunning interface.

Geary has much of the functionality of Thunderbird , but nowhere near all: it cannot, for example, filter messages (yet) based on user-defined rules. Since Geary—which has been written in a new programming language Vala—is still relatively an infant, we can expect the infant to cut a tooth every once in a while.

I would be disappointing you if I were to leave you without a peek at the Geary interface. Figure 7-6 provides a glimpse.

Figure 7-6The Geary email client

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