User:Imz/mini-research of mail clients
< User:Imz
A list of serious, primarily free software mail clients with attention to certain specific features: IMAP, editing of received messages, searching (full-text; through many folders; the result should be presented as a list of messages).
Proprietary well known ones
- Lotus Notes (8.5)
-
- IMAP
- yes
- editing of received message
- yes
- searching
- probably, yes, but only with a Domino server, not on IMAP (I should try indexing with IMAP in the Linux version as well; in Windows, it didn't work)
- Office Outlook (2007)
-
- IMAP
- yes
- editing of received messages
- yes
- searching
- some kind of it -- yes (but not through many folders)
(but it crashes too often)
Free software
- Mozilla Thunderbird (and Seamonkey)
-
- IMAP
- yes
- editing of received messages
- with a an add-on -- buggy (not with attachments+IMAP)
- searching
- some kind of it -- yes (drawbacks: ???)
- ...
- http://www.rpcurnow.force9.co.uk/mairix/
- "a program for indexing and searching email messages stored in Maildir (see the documentation section below), MH or mbox folders. "
- http://www.mailody.net/
- ??? "...work a lot with shared email folders..."[3]
- IMAP
- yes
- editing of received messages
- "a feature to tag emails", "a way to make a quick internal comment on messages"[4] (Is this implemented?)
- searching
- "IMAP just isn't really suitable for quickly finding messages when I have a customer on the phone. I would like to have a simple database backend to do that in."[5]
- http://decimail.org/
- ???
- IMAP
- yes
- editing of received messages
- ???
- searching
- "Decimail Server is an IMAP email server that uses a PostgreSQL database for message storage. Mailboxes are defined by SQL queries, making complex message searchng and categorisation possible."[6]