OT: mozilla quits thunderbird need recommendations

[Edward M]

hello,


read mozilla quits thunderbird dev and its future is uncertainly
I am sure thunderbird will go on but i may not like the new model of 
doing things
so i need some recommendations on email clients that comes close or 
exceeds thunderbird


reference:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57467973-93/mozilla-calling-it-quits-on-...

thanks

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Sat, 2012-07-07 at 19:17 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>  On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 16:36:09 -0700,
>     Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us&gt; wrote:
>  >On 07/07/2012 04:22 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>  >>Since the standalone calendar client (sunbird) went away, thunderbird
>  >>with the lightning extension seems to be one of the few choices for
>  >>calendar clients.
>  >
>  >For the most part, I use GdeskCal for a desktop calendar and for 
>  >reminders.  There are a few things it doesn't do, such as remind me 
>  >on "the third Wednesday of every month," so I use the ReminderFox 
>  >extension to T'bird for those.
>  
>  I need to be able to pull together remote calendars using caldav and ical. 
>   From what I have found on gDeskCal in a quick search, suggests it doesn't 
>  handle remote calendars at all. 
Evolution 3.x does a pretty decent job of aggregating calendars from
different sources. As an email client, it's pretty run-of-the-mill, but
it usually gets the job done.

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 16:36:09 -0700,
   Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us&gt; wrote:
> On 07/07/2012 04:22 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> >Since the standalone calendar client (sunbird) went away, thunderbird
> >with the lightning extension seems to be one of the few choices for
> >calendar clients.
>
> For the most part, I use GdeskCal for a desktop calendar and for 
> reminders.  There are a few things it doesn't do, such as remind me 
> on "the third Wednesday of every month," so I use the ReminderFox 
> extension to T'bird for those. 
I need to be able to pull together remote calendars using caldav and ical. 
 From what I have found on gDeskCal in a quick search, suggests it doesn't 
handle remote calendars at all.

[Joe Zeff]

On 07/07/2012 04:22 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>  Since the standalone calendar client (sunbird) went away,
> thunderbird
>  with the lightning extension seems to be one of the few choices for
>  calendar clients. 
For the most part, I use GdeskCal for a desktop calendar and for 
reminders.  There are a few things it doesn't do, such as remind me on 
"the third Wednesday of every month," so I use the ReminderFox extension 
to T'bird for those.

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 17:43:30 -0400,
   Tom Horsley <horsley1953(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 14:04:07 -0700
>
> As far as I'm concerned almost everything exceeds thunderbird (except
> evolution - it is even worse). 
Since the standalone calendar client (sunbird) went away, thunderbird with 
the lightning extension seems to be one of the few choices for calendar 
clients. (Maybe seamonkey has one built in, but otherwise I don't think 
there is anything else packaged for fedora.)

[Joe Zeff]

On 07/07/2012 03:35 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>  Mozarella foundation "gave up" with the SeaMonkey suite
> back in *2004*
>  and everyone announced back then that Mozilla was dead.
>
>  THEN the*COMMUNITY*  of users and Mozilla advocates decided to accept
>  the challenge and a small group of developers said "fine, we take over
>  development" and
>  formed the SEAMONKEY COUNCIL, which has been doing SeaMonkey
>  development ever since. 
About a year or so ago I had some trouble with Firefox; it became very 
unstable and constantly crashed.  While I was working out what was wrong 
and getting it working again I installed SeaMonkey so that I'd have a 
working browser.  I wasn't impressed by it, at least not favorably. 
Among other things, it completely ignored its own setting to open 
external links in the current window and instead insisted on opening 
links from Thunderbird in a new window on Thunderbird's workspace, not 
the one SeaMonkey was on.  I asked about this on SeaMonkey's support 
forum and never got an answer; not even a suggested solution.  If that's 
the route Thunderbird's going to take, it's doomed AFAICT.

[Edward M]

On 07/07/2012 02:43 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
>  I have used claws-mail for years now, and find it pretty much
> perfect
>  for me.
>  --  
     Thanks for recommendation i will give it a  look.
     I want to get a head start if i dont like the plan mozilla has for 
thunderbird:-)

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Edward M <edwardm1(a)live.com&gt; wrote:
>  hello,
>
>
>  read mozilla quits thunderbird dev and its future is uncertainly
>  I am sure thunderbird will go on but i may not like the new model of doing
>  things
>  so i need some recommendations on email clients that comes close or exceeds
>  thunderbird 
Why is paranoia so rampant these days?.

The sky is falling, the sky is falling.... NOT!

Mozarella foundation "gave up" with the SeaMonkey suite back in *2004*
and everyone announced back then that Mozilla was dead.

THEN the *COMMUNITY* of users and Mozilla advocates decided to accept
the challenge and a small group of developers said "fine, we take over
development" and
formed the SEAMONKEY COUNCIL, which has been doing SeaMonkey
development ever since. That´s the beauty of open source, a company
dropping its interest in something doesn´t mean it´s dead.

That´s the guys who have been doing SeaMonkey development since 2005.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1041219/mozilla-suite-born-despi...

The same could happen with Thunderbird.... if there´s parties
interested in keeping it alive. I bet at least some Linux distros will
want to keep it alive. T-Bird is a darn fine lightweight email
client for IMAP, compared to other ´solutions´ like MS-Novell´s "Evolution"
fatware

just my $0.02
FC

[Tom Horsley]

On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 14:04:07 -0700
Edward M wrote:

>  so i need some recommendations on email clients that comes close or 
>  exceeds thunderbird 
As far as I'm concerned almost everything exceeds thunderbird (except
evolution - it is even worse).

I have used claws-mail for years now, and find it pretty much perfect
for me.