On Fri, 2022-02-11 at 12:15 -0600, fedora@cwm030.com wrote:
Hi Ya'll,
I know that there are, to me, seems like A LOT of email clients for the linux world.
And It's getting harder and harder for me to hop around and try new email clients out when they come out being a..........GET READY TO CRINGE..... POP3 user.
Last week I tried TDE ( Trinity Desktop ) on Debian. and decided to give KMAIL a try... Big mistake... Importing my email into KMAIL caused the emails names to be changed from numbers ( because I used Claws before) to this weird string of letters and numbers. Therefore, I could not import my email back to CLAWS since I gave up and returned to Fedora and Gnome 3.
I plan on staying with Fedora and Gnome 3.
I thought about making the change to IMAP, but old habits die hard. I find myself when I set up or try a new email client, I wind up setting it up as POP3...
So I am just curious if there is any POP users still out there
And what are some pros and cons switching to IMAP?
I stopped using POP around 10 years ago. The biggest pro is that you can keep your mail on a server and access it from multiple clients. That includes organizing it in folders. You can't realistically do this in POP. The only "con" is again that you're keeping your mail on a server. However even that isn't a limitation as you can easily download it for off-line access. Good IMAP clients will do this automatically if you want.
And what program do you use on Fedora for your email?
Evolution. I also use Gmail, but have my Gmail accounts set up for IMAP access so I can see them in Evolution, or on the web client, or on my phone app.
poc