dovecot - Nov 2016 - Good email client to use with Dovecot?

Claws is an active project.?

I became roundcube free when I set up my own mail server. ?

I simply use an email client rather than a browser. Browsers can leak.

Comments about the retired TB:
?https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/
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Practically what this means is that in 2016, Thunderbird will finally be able to
accept donations from users directed toward the update and maintenance of
Thunderbird. In the long run, Thunderbird needs to rely on our users for
support, and not expect to be subsidized by revenue from Firefox. We welcome
this help from the Mozilla Foundation in moving toward our goal of developing
independent sources of income for Thunderbird.

In the technical part of that post, Mitchell reiterated that Mozilla needs to be
laser-focused on Firefox, and that the burden this places on Thunderbird (as
well as the burden that Thunderbird places on Firefox) is leading to
unacceptable outcomes for both projects. The most immediate need is for the
Thunderbird release infrastructure to be independent of that used by Firefox,
and Mozilla has offered to help. In the long-term, there will be additional
technical separation between Firefox and Thunderbird as a continuation of a
process that has been ongoing for the last three years.
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? Original Message ?
From: Benny Pedersen
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 6:36 PM
To: dovecot at dovecot.org
Reply To: Dovecot Mailing List
Subject: Re: Good email client to use with Dovecot?

lists at lazygranch.com skrev den 2016-11-18 03:07:
> FWIW, I use claws, which is about the only one not mentioned.?
lets see if dovecot will be webmail ng someday
> I don't like Thunderbird.
sadly
> For one thing, it is in caretaker status.
what ?
> Mozilla believes Web based mail is the "future."
do you have references for this somewhere ?
> I rather not run
> roundcube, given I got hacked via an unpatched roundcube
unpatched is allways good, problems come when non default and mostly 
custom plugins is not tested, keep plain roundcube should not be a 
problem more then a claws client that is not patched
> back when I
> was using a hosting company.
nothing happended since then ?
> ? Webmail just increases your attack
> surface.?
so what is the solution ?, going offline ?

On 11/17/2016 11:03 PM, lists at lazygranch.com <lists at lazygranch.com>
wrote:
> Comments about the retired TB:
> ?https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/
> --------------------
> Practically what this means is that in 2016, Thunderbird will finally
> be able to accept donations from users directed toward the update and
> maintenance of Thunderbird. In the long run, Thunderbird needs to
> rely on our users for support, and not expect to be subsidized by
> revenue from Firefox. We welcome this help from the Mozilla
> Foundation in moving toward our goal of developing independent
> sources of income for Thunderbird.
The interesting thing is that Thunderbird has seen a lot more bug fixes
and improvements since Mozilla 'abandoned' development of it than it
ever saw under direct Mozilla 'care'.

There are some uncomfortable pain points coming up (deprecation of
XUL/XPCOM being the main ones), but I'm confident Thunderbird will
emerge victorious, once again.

:)

On 18/11/2016 14:19, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Comments about the retired TB:
> >?https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/
As far as webmail being the future - imho - I am getting away from it, 
and that is why dovecot is worth investigating as port to replace the 
imap program supplied with my server OS.

As far as the blog entry above - that is dated 9 december 2015, and 
nothing newer.

Since someone also commented "more fixes than before" - I guess 
Thunderbird is "blogging" elsewhere - hint to where might be good in 
this thread.

It has certainly been an interesting read. Maybe I should use MUTT - as 
I have been a happy vi user for nearly 38 years (even coded it a bit in 
the pre-curses days - to add a new terminal ;) - ah memories :)