KMail, Evolution, Thunderbird, and Claws Mail
YOU’VE GOT MAIL
We examine the strengths and weaknesses of four popular mail clients: KMail, Evolution, Thunderbird, and Claws Mail.
An early challenge of the Internet pioneers was to find a way to send small text messages across a network. Despite criticism that sending snippets of text was “not an important motivation for a network of scientific computers” [1], email quickly became one of the world’s most important forms of communication.
The simple console-based text programs used by those Internet pioneers would never work today. Modern email clients must contend with new irritants such as spam, intrusion, and skyrocketing volumes of email traffic.
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