Recommendations for a Linux Email Client?

I see you can blog again. Cool.

Been happy enough with tbird here but you have some specific requirements. Only question I'd have for the other email clients is whether encryption is integrated? That's basically the reason I went from mutt to tbird.

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My preferred email client was Thunderbird, but I also used Kmail - both were pretty easy when it came to set up PGP. I tried Evolution because it looked alot like Outlook, but it never was able to sync correctly with my Palm PDA - the times were always off, no matter how many different ways I changed settings.

After years of using Linux, I've settled on Kmail and the KDE desktop overall. I used Evolution for awhile, but was rather disappointed in their refusal to implement inline PGP signing because in some circles, it is considered "depracated."

However, unfortunately because Microsoft refuses to implement the newer (and better) OpenPGP/Mime method, all signed emails to Outlook users were difficult to locate the message body - as well, Outlook didn't recognize the attached signature as being an OpenPGP/Mime signature - and sometimes users would be presented with a virus warning.

Since switching to Kmail, I enjoy the other features of Kontact as well - and the fact most of it syncs with my Palm Pilot using Kpilot.

Earlier versions of Kmail sometimes had difficulty in implementing fully GnuPG encryption depending on the distribution it came with - but it seems now that most distributions have included all the "hooks" required to get it working "out of the box" now.

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Depending on the mail format used by Calypso, you may be able to import all your old mail into Kmail, as well. Kmaill will import easily email from The Bat! as well as Outlook, so may be in luck - but I don't know for sure.

One strike against Kmail is it's lack of ability to create templates - but I believe this is being worked on.

Kmail can create distribution lists although at first, it's not "easy" to figure out how to begin this - although once you've discovered how, it's quite simple as long as those on the distribitution list(s) are in your Contact List (Adress Book) that is built in to "Kontact"

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and am hoping for something better. Lightweight, but still fairly full-featured. Nothing seems to satisfy at present.

Sunni,
Have you explored Thunderbird extensions? I'm not sure about the particular functionality you're interested in but there is a lot of stuff available.