[wuug-list] [wuug-forum] Matt Draisey: IMAP clients suggestions?

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Author: Matt Draisey
Username: Matt Draisey (bas2-windsor12-1128661080.dsl.bell.ca)
Subject: IMAP clients suggestions?
Forum: Software
Link: http://www.wuug.org/read.php?13,72,72#msg-72
Approved: Yes

I'm looking for a good imap client on linux that will let me get a hang of how imap works.  I have just tried using imap in evolution and wasn't impressed.

Google has just added imap support to gmail and google/apps mail accounts.  I like the idea of being to synchronize my local hierarchy of mail with the online version.    Evolution is my current email client and has 6 years of mail stashed away in a complex hierarchy.  My google/apps account is only a year old (when I finally got fed up of running spam filters on my own server) and all my recent mail is duplicated there but with only superficial tagging.  I don't yet know enough about imap to synchronize my mail properly and evolution's documentation is terrible

I have been considering abandoning evolution for years now --- I really don't like the way it splits mail up to Inbox, Outbox, Sent, Drafts, Trash, etc. ---  it really messes up mail threading.

Everything I know about imap I have gained in the last two hours, the last hour of which was spent in fruitless googling.  I would welcome any help I could get.