On 31 July 2012 12:31, Ben McGinnes <ben@adversary.org> wrote:
Hello, A friend of mine is a die-hard user of the Windows MUA The Bat! (yes, the client name includes the exclamation mark). He does, however, wish to move to Linux at some point and is looking for a mail client which has comparable features to The Bat!
He's already tried Thunderbird and it doesn't meet his requirements, also GPG support (either directly or through plugins) is essential. Plus his hardware is so old that he can't just run Windows in a VM to continue using The Bat! and Wine may or may not work, but is beig considered. The ideal solution, of course, is a native client which supports the same features as The Bat! While hardware constraints have him considering Lubuntu as the primary candidate for a distribution.
Those of you unfamiliar with The Bat! can refer to these pages for a list of features (of which my friend uses most):
http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat!
Does anyone have suggestions for email clients for him to try?
According to the WineHQ , version 5.x of The Bat! has platinum support under wine v1.3.21. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=68 -- Colin Fee tfeccles@gmail.com