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* Claws Mail - very fast and light-weight GUI client (MUA). ported to many OSes and extended with plug-ins.
* Sylpheed - very light-weight GUI client. Windows/OSX/GTK+(Linux/BSD/etc)
* Mutt - a bit hard-core but runs reasonably well from command-line on Unix-like systems, even usable on OSX. Windows version is weird (PDcurses port looks the best, but has bugs/work-arounds)
* Alpine - that classic PINE feel, but still actively maintained.
* Eudora Open Source Edition - classic e-mail client. OSE is really a fork of Thunderbird. For the real deal you need to port the source yourself. (I'm not sure why you would, beyond nostalgia)
* Mailbird - Windows freeware
* Mail.app - OSX only. older versions significantly better (and faster) than latest.

I use Sylpheed. It's light and fast and doesn't do anything I don't need. However, in truth, nowadays I mostly use Gmail web interface.

Used to use Evolution at work. It's okay too. If I remember correctly, it did something business-related (calendars?) better than Thunderbird circa '10. This is probably no longer relevant

I hate to keep spamming the thread, but has nobody out there heard of Sylpheed? It's even open source and GPL licensed software. It runs on any desktop.

Try out Sylpheed.

It's available for about any operating system. I first started using it when I was running NetBSD on the desktop. The code is packaged for any freenix out there, and there's also a Windows binary.

SeaMonkey is independent of Firefox.

I use SeaMonkey for the WYSIWYG cut-and-paste editor, to pull out formatted web content to save, but I use Sylpheed for my email client. It's just the best for email, IMHO. If you subscribe to mailing lists, Sylpheed indents the threads, etc. And it's compliant with a lot of the email standards.

I liked Sylpheed when I was looking for a lightweight client back in the day. Now... Firefox is my Gmail client, and Gmail is my POP3 client. You might be able to upload your archives into there via IMAP somehow.

Related to Claws Mail is Sylpheed which is the project that Claws Mail originally forked from. Haven't used it, but I'm pretty happy with Claws Mail (granted, I use it as email client only, no calender or anything like that).

I use pop.gmail.com to connect, and seldom use any other logged-in google services. I make a point, even, of not storing 'logged in' google cookies in the browser I use.

Sylpheed is a great email client. The web is for web browsing, not ads alongside your email messages.

I'm still with Sylpheed, you forking bastard.

If you're looking for a step up from Eudora, try sylpheed. It's open source and builds on any system I've tried.

I use gmail for my main email account, and I strictly use their pop server to connect and download my email to sylpheed.

Web mail is for homeless people to use in libraries.

Is there anyone tech-savvy out there who's not already filtering their mail into a bunch of folders or some other means of prioritization? I use Sylpheed, which easily filters my mail into various folders. And by using mh folders, messages are stored in flat files on which I can use the standard Unix-y tools like grep -- and which are easily migrated to a new machine. My e-mail archives go back over 14 years.

I'm pretty sure that the filters I set up manually will be much more useful to me than Google's guesses about what I find important.

sylpheed is better:
    http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/

it uses MH for storage (similar to maildir - a requested tbird enhancement that has fallen on deaf ears for years)

I can see an option to sort incoming email by how frequently you've sent messages to that person as being very useful...the messages from my friends and family would pop to the top of the list where I'll see them right away.

How about a system that can sort incoming e-mail into different folders by sender, or by subject, or by any header. You know, like any decent mail client has been able to do for over a decade. I get mail from friends, Sylpheed sorts in into my "friends" folder. I can even say "if it's from Julie and it has `poetry' in the subject, file it under `arts'".

Is Gmail so lacking in functionality that it can't do this?

http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/

slypheed kicks the crap out of them all. incredibly fast, clean, reliable.

I use my provider's spam detection instead of client side, I prefer to not download the spam and waste bandwidth.

sylpheed is a cross-platform email client that is lighter-weight and more stable than thunderbird.

http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/

Have you tried Sylpheed?

A good X11 mail client

"that stupid mail program"
Just try it. It's a well done client: lightweight, userfriendly and very very fast: http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/

I guess this is a remake of the Sega CD game Silpheed. Man was that a bad game. Utterly repetetive, the only way to play it is to memorize all the levels and twitch. I love my Sega CD and all but, damn. I'd rather use Sylpheed than play Silpheed.

who thought this post was going to be about the Sylpheed email client? --jrd

> Every time he launched the application, he had to wait five minutes to use it, until it synced with CareGroup's Microsoft Exchange server. If he deleted an e-mail before the entire store of deleted e-mails had synced, or if he tried sending an e-mail before all stored e-mails had synced, the application would crash.

I wish that someone would introduce Halamka to http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ - its _really_ fast and contains all the features that one would ever need.. and if not, there are plug-ins.

While we're slightly off-topic, my vote goes to sylpheed

I use it at home on my linux box, and it runs just fine as a portable app (sylpheed --configdir=foo) from the USB stick when forced to use somebody else's computer on the road (IMAP over SSL along with SMTP Auth and SMTP with Starttls to my home server).

A very nice lightweight mail client, with some good improvements to the UI in the 2.4 version that was recently released.

If you enjoy having more crap built-in (like rendering HTML), check out claws, which is a fork of sylpheed.

I looked at Thunderbird a couple of times to see what it had to offer. I always end up going back to Sylpheed. Sylpheed has its own little problems, but overall is a good mail client. I use it with IMAP over SSL and SMTP Auth with Starttls to my home server, and also take advantage of its multiple account capability to use as a dual mail client at work (I'm the mail admin, so the SMTP servers forward to a local mailbox on the linux box on my desk ... local mailboxes is one thing that thunderbird continually fails to get right). I have Sylpheed on 2 different machines at home, my work machine, and as a windoze portable app (nothing special to do there, it just works, point it to a config file on the USB key). Coupled with IMAP this works great for me.