Recommend an Outlook replacement

Question

Not a fan of Evolution or Thunderbird.

Is there a decent alternative to Outlook on Ubuntu?

Answer 1

I like Zimbra Desktop hope you do like it :)

it supports Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Microsoft Live Hotmail, AOL Mail, Microsoft Exchange IMAP, IMAP, and POP

Answer 2

Use Opera - I'm a huge fan of Opera's integrated Email, Chat. It's much more than a browser, it even has extensions now!

Answer 3

Kmail(requires kde libraries and qt4...obviosly) Claws(GTK) Sylpheed(GTK) Balsa(GTK) Personally I'm a die hard Thunderbird fan for Gnome and Kmail for KDE

Answer 4

I would recommend going with Thunderbird. Install one from the repository

It does not have Exchange support. If you workplace/institution uses Microsoft Exchange, then you might find it a problem.

The one in repository is Thunderbird 3.1.7 which is really good. It might be sluggish due to some XULRunner issues, but it doesn't crawl when you have to download 3000 mails at once. I have configured it with all my 4 email ids and it works perfectly.

If you are adding a Gmail account, then it is just a few clicks away. Adding a Gmail account is probably the simplest on Thunderbird of all the email providers.

Answer 5

I ran into a similar conundrum a while back, and after weighing out all options decided to move to Google Apps/Gmail with no regrets. Gmail is an able aggregator of multiple accounts, works across browsers and OS well, and gets you away from a single machine as your email hub.

Answer 6

claws-mail

Here is how you use it with MS exchange

Answer 7

Thunderbird with lightning and this groupware http://www.sogo.nu/english.html You can have a good outlook + exchange replacement

Answer 8

If Gmail is an acceptable alternative, the GNOME Gmail package integrates the web interface into GNOME.