[Discuss] Email App

[John Blomfield]

Thanks Brendan, I found sylpheed had morphed into Claws Mail on my 
openSuse. I gave it a try along with KMail and found that they both, as 
you pointed out with respect to Thunderbird, had an option not to 
download messages automatically. So my comparison criteria became how 
well I could shrink the layout to show a message list only minimizing 
the space it takes up on the desktop but still show useful information. 
I found I could do this with Kmail making it look similar to my tablet 
email app and clicking on a message popped up the message window. 
Running works well for me since I use the KDE desktop. There is also a 
panel notifier if desired that can be configured to annoy you visually 
or with a sound each time you receive mail. My only hesitation is that 
Kmail does have a buggy reputation. However, I will try it out for a few 
weeks on my Netbook where no get harm can occur to any of my data.

John


On 06/17/2014 11:37 AM, brendan wrote:
> with thunderbird, go to the account settings control (right click on 
> the account name and choose settings). go to synchronization & 
> storage, and uncheck "keep messages for this account on this 
> computer". that should stop it from downloading them all.
>
> alternately, check out the sylpheed mail client 
> (http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/), which is lighter weight than 
> thunderbird and has an option to not download messages automatically 
> as well. on low power computers, i use sylpheed over thunderbird as 
> it's less resource intensive.
>
> On 14-06-17 10:55 AM, John Blomfield wrote:
>> I use Thunderbird email client on my main desktop box to access my 
>> Shaw email account. I have it set up so that I click ""Get Mail" to 
>> download mail and Shaw "removes from further downloads" that mail 
>> from the Shaw server, although you can go on to Shaw and get it back 
>> I think for 30 days or something like that. On my Android tablet and 
>> phone I have an email App that views mail on the Shaw server without 
>> downloading i.e no need to use webmail.shaw.ca on a web browser.
>>
>> My question is, does anyone know of a email client that works like 
>> the Android app that I can have sitting on the desktop of my Netbook 
>> and displays emails as they arrive but does not download them, 
>> although the Android app allows you to clean out the old emails from 
>> view without affecting what's on the Shaw server?
>>
>> John
>>
>
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