Mail Clients

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Welcome to mail clients page

There are many useful mail clients in openSUSE.

Mozilla

Mozilla owns a variety of applications, mostly thunderbird, Mozilla suite and Seamonkey, variation around the Gecko libraries. they are all multi-plateform (Linux, Windows, Mac...) and on Linux gtk1 or gtk2

Mozilla Thunderbird

Very famous client derived from founder Mozilla. It is quite fast even with big amount of mails. You can use it in every environment
Toolkit: gtk
Recommendation: all window_manager
License: GPL

Seamonkey

All in one application, managing integration between the browser and the mailer. strong point: mail and news reader, allow for many mail account, allow for multiple owner identity

Mulberry

Multi-platform pim program. Great support for IMAP. It is not integrated either with KDE nor with GNOME Toolkit: own
Recommendation: all [window manager]s]
License: GPL

KMail

KMail is the default mail client for KDE, it has good KDE integration using the KDE address book. It runs on other desktop environments, as long as package kdelibs3 is installed. Kontact is an application which combines KMail with KOrganizer, KAddressbook, KPhone, KPilot in one application to offer even more functionality than Outlook.
Toolkit: Qt
Recommendation: KDE
License: GPL

Evolution

Evolution is default GNOME mail client. It offer many features, but is little slow. It also offer functionality as MS Outlook do. Evolution is binded with GNOME (in openSUSE very deeply).
Toolkit: gtk
Recommendation: GNOME
License: GPL

Opera

Opera is QT based multi-platform web browser with integrated mail client. Mail client offer many interesting and innovating features. Although it is QT based Opera have no deep bindings in KDE and could be used in all environments. Opera is not free software Toolkit: Qt
Recommendation: all
License: freeware

Claws Mail (Was called Sylpheed Claws)

Claws Mail is an email client (and news reader), based on GTK+, featuring

• Quick response
• Graceful, and sophisticated interface
• Easy configuration, intuitive operation
• Abundant features
• Extensibility

mutt

Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems.
Toolkit: none
Recommendation: all
License: GPL

Links

• Mozilla Thunderbird
• Seamonkey
• MulBerry
• Kmail
• Evolution
• Opera
• Claws Mail (Was called Sylpheed Claws)
• Mutt