[Design] Your favourite IMAP client?

[Brant Gurganus]

Chih-Chao Lam wrote:

> I'm starting to plan for our 0.5 release (the one after 0.4 which we 
> are developing as I type) and one of the key goals is to make Chandler 
> experimentally usable as an IMAP client.
>
> A key challenge for IMAP, of course, is to make Chandler coexist with 
> other IMAP clients and allow users to switch between clients to access 
> the same IMAP account. To that end, we'd like to investigate the IMAP 
> implementation  of a few clients in greater detail.
>
> So, I'd like to start a thread on your favorite IMAP client. In 
> particular, I'd like to learn more about what IMAP clients *Linux* 
> users employ today. Please list your favorite client name, version and 
> OS platform you're on. Ideally, we'd like to study 3-5 clients in more 
> detail.
>
> Please keep this discussion to *IMAP* clients only.


I use Mozilla Thunderbird on both Windows and Linux.  I also use my 
university-provided Squirrelmail for Web-based access to IMAP.

On our servers, Thunderbird does have some major problems removing and 
renaming folders.  It also doesn't set server-side filters.

-- 
Brant Gurganus
http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~gurganbl