Many users believe that superior tools for managing spam and generally better
security mechanisms make Linux a great desktop platform for managing
your e-mail.
Choosing an E-Mail Client
Choices of e-mail clients range from those that look like clones of popular
Windows e-mail programs to those that run in plain text from the shell, and
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Reading e-mail with
Thunderbird Mail
Managing e-mail in Evolution
Using text-based e-mail clients
Browsing the Web with Firefox
Using text-based Web browsers
E-Mailing and
Web Browsing
interfaces vary widely with the e-mail clients that are available with Linux. Here are some different
ways in which e-mail clients are integrated into Linux:
Standalone??”These days, most e-mail clients are standalone applications in their own right.
The primary standalone e-mail application is Mozilla Thunderbird 2 (www.mozilla.com/
en-US/thunderbird/), although you can find 50 or more choices on Linux, such as
Sylpheed (sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/).
With a Web browser??”Many popular Web browsers include an integrated e-mail client.
By configuring the e-mail client that comes with your browser, you are ready to launch a
new e-mail message by clicking on a mailto link from a browser window. You can also
easily open the e-mail client from your Web browser??™s toolbar.
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