Email clients are applications that make it much easier to manage your email messages. Here are some open source options for email clients that are quite popular amongst Linux users.
1. Claws Mail
This is an email client that is based on GTK+ and features,
- Quick response
- Graceful, and sophisticated interface
- Easy configuration, intuitive operation
- Abundant features
- Extensibility
- Robustness and stability
2. Thunderbird
Mozilla's free email application is perhaps the most popular amongst Linux users.
3. KMail
From the website: KMail is the email component of Kontact, the integrated personal information manager from KDE.
4. Balsa
Balsa is an e-mail client for GNOME, highly configurable and incorporating all the features you would expect in a robust mail client.
5. Sylpheed
This is a lightweight and easy-to-use email client that Linux users can try out.
6. Alpine
From the website: Alpine is a fast, easy to use email client that is suitable for both the inexperienced email user as well as for the most demanding of power users. Alpine is based on the Pine® Message System, which was also developed at the University of Washington. Alpine can be learned by exploration and the use of context-sensitive help. The user experience is highly customizable through the use of the Alpine Setup command.
7. Cone
From the website: Cone is a screen-oriented E-mail/News reader and writer. If you are reading this documentation from within Cone, you are actually reading the simplified HTML version of Cone's documentation that's formatted as a folder of E-mail messages. Each online tutorial chapter appears as a separate message. Use PgUp and PgDn to read each chapter. Press N and P to move to the next/previous chapter.
8. Pine
Pine stands for Program for Internet News and Email.
9. mutt
This is a text-based mail client that is based on the Unix operating system.
10. SquirrelMail
This is another email client that many Linux users love and use.
As a System Admin for Windows, here are your gears of war Here are 10 admin tools that come in handy for the same.
1. Wireshark
This is a free software-based protocol analyser, which is a very useful tool for Windows administrators. Many say that it makes network traffic analysis easier by many degrees.
2. AMANDA
This is a Windows-based tool that stands for Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver. It allows the administrator to create a master backup server, which can support both Windows-powered servers and desktops.
3. MailArchiva
Email archiving is front and center in Exchange 2010, thanks to the increase in compliance regulation enforcement across the industry. But for those who are not yet using Exchange 2010, MailArchiva provides a worthwhile means for bringing compliance to Exchange 2000/2003 and other mail servers, such as Postfix, Sendmail, Qmail, iMail, and Lotus Notes.
4. Exchange 2010 RBAC Manager
Exchange 2010 RBAC Manager is a great tool for admins working with role-based access control and Exchange. RBAC Manager (aka RBAC Editor GUI) helps overcome the lack of a GUI tool to work with the new role-based administration side to Exchange, enabling admins to connect, whether or not you're a PowerShell master. The tool is written in C# and uses PowerShell behind the scenes to allow you to create and manage roles in your Exchange 2010 environment.
5. Core Configurator 2.0 for Server Core
This is a command-line tool for Windows Server 2002 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
6. AutoSPInstaller for SharePoint 2010
This tool makes use of a number of different scripts in order to install SharePoint and implements database names that are untouched in all of this process.
7. OCS Inventory
This tool helps you to locate the devices that are connected to your network and hardware and software that has been installed on your computer. You have to instal the OCS client inventory agent on your systems.
8. UltraDefrag
This is a defragmentation tool for Windows-based computers. It is updated continuously to ensure improvements in the performance.
9. Nmap for Windows
Yes, this used to be a Linux-only platform at one point of time. But just like it was for Linux, Nmap for windows is a very useful and important security resource fr Windows computers.
10. Zenmap
This tool can be used for mapping a topology of devices that have been connected to your network. It works on Nmap and provides a graphical user interface for the comman-line tool.
