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@AlanBrown Out of interest, which client are you using and what clients are you used to on Windows?
I suspect the printing speed may be very dependent on which printer you’re using and how you have things hooked up. I’ve not really considered printing to be slow here, but then I haven’t used Windows for a long time, so don’t really have anything to compare to.
How often are you seeing updates and how frequently were you used to seeing them?
Sorry for all the questions, but it’s interesting to hear about how others feel they compare. I’ve been predominantly a Linux user for over 2 decades now and thus don’t have any recent experience using the alternatives.
Clients? No idea what that means. A linuxterm?
It’s a large commercial printer and it just seems to take ages to process the file to be sent. Not a problem just noticeable. It shows a sign for updates several times a week.
We don’t us much except a web browser and email client. Very occasional printing.
Which email client? I’ve used Geany, Thunderbird and Evolution (and mutt, but let’s not go there), to differing degrees of success.
Email wise, these all feel as good as what I remember from the last time I used Outlook, though calendaring is definitely not as good.
Blue mail. And Firefox. If I remember correctly we had to use blue mail as. It worked with the MSFT email account. I’m not a fan of the way it threads the inbox and the formatting on the screen is poor. Esp in compose / subject.. woul£ be good to find a better mail client.
I took the liberty of moving this discussion to a new topic, since it’s a tangent from the CCS event. Please keep going though 
, I am also interested.
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Perhaps title needs to be Linux email apps.
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Gmail pretty much decimated the effort that was going into mail clients. The vast majority of people use webmail now or are using outlook for corporate email.
It depends what your preferences are. I’m currently using Thunderbird for work, though I’ve probably spent as much time using Evolution over the years, at home I do just use Gmail in a browser. I’m not overly fond of Thunderbird, I find it’s search functionality awkward. I’ve yet to find one with good calendaring integration that handles meeting reminders well (most will pop up a reminder, but they are all to easily lost into the background or on a different virtual desktop).
Geary is quite nice, but doesn’t handle threads in a way that works with my requirements, I don’t think it has calendaring integration (which was an issue for work use) and if I remember correctly couldn’t be configured to send straight text emails, which was a must for some of the things I do.
I tend to run a Gnome desktop, hence the above choices, though I used to be happy with Kmail when I was running KDE, though that was both ages ago and my requirements would have been much simpler.
Having problems with blue mail on our Linux computer. Not loaded inbox since 13th April.
Seems to send ok, but spinning icon above list of inbox. Any ideas why?
No idea I’m afraid. It looks like BlueMail is a proprietary closed source product. I think from what you’ve said above you’re using that with one of Microsoft’s email offerings. If that’s not using the standard mail protocols, maybe Microsoft have subtly changed the protocol and BlueMail hasn’t been adapted yet, BlueMail have tweaked something and it’s no longer working well with Microsoft’s servers or you’re having network connectivity issues somewhere. 
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Cleared cache and it brought inbox up to date but still spinning icon so I wonder if there’s one email that’s corrupt or overly large attachments.
will keep exploring
The app does report anything to the journal does it? Probably a bit of a long shot.
Hmm, just remembered that the website suggested it was packaged via the snap format, that’d probably have an impact on the logging even if it does…
Linux gobble de gook. I know not what you mean.