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Christopher Negus

"Linux Bible, 2008 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 Other Distributions"


Feature-rich Mozilla Mail (www.mozilla.org) is probably the most popular e-mail client
for Linux to come with a Web browser. Netscape Communicator (www.netscape.com)
is another Web browser that has its own mail client (although it has been dropped from
many Linux distributions because of licensing issues). Most users, however, use the separated
clients Thunderbird for e-mail and Firefox for Web browsing. These applications
were split out of the unified Mozilla suite (now called SeaMonkey).
The Opera Web browser (www.opera.com) also includes an integrated e-mail client. It is
perhaps the most elegant of the e-mail clients that comes with a Web browser. Opera is
available for personal use without cost.
 With groupware??”Some e-mail clients have been bundled with other personal productivity
applications to form integrated groupware applications. The most popular of these
in Linux is Evolution, which is bundled as the default e-mail client with several different
Linux distributions. Besides e-mail, Evolution includes a calendar, task list, and contacts
directory. (A company named Ximian originally produced Evolution. Novell, Inc. purchased
Ximian, and then later renamed and rebranded Ximian Evolution as Novell
Evolution.)
 From the shell??”Many old-school UNIX and Linux power users prefer to use an e-mail
client that runs without a graphical desktop.


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