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 MailThis 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.
