User:Imz/mini-research of mail clients

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: ???)




 * notmuch: "a fast, search-oriented mail client",


 * 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://mulberrymail.com/: ???


 * http://www.mailody.net/: ??? "...work a lot with shared email folders..."
 * IMAP: yes
 * editing of received messages: "a feature to tag emails", "a way to make a quick internal comment on messages" (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."


 * 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."