1. Martin Valdner martin@valdner.com 31.10.2006 Linux Comparison of email clients

2. 2 Basic facts Kmail KDE GPL Free Mozilla ThunderBird Mozilla Foundation MPL, GPL, LGPL Free Novell Evolution Ximian GPL Free Product: Creator: License: Cost:

3. 3 History & present September 1999 1.9.4 ? July 2003 1.5.0.7 2.0 May 2000 2.8.1 2.9 First seen: Actual stable version: Version in development:

4. 4 OS and protocol support Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, Unix POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, LDAP v2, (NNTP) Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, Unix POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, NNTP, (LDAP), RSS, ATOM Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, Unix POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, NNTP, iCalendar Supported OS: Supported protocols:

5. 5 Authentication support The following authentication protocols are supported in all three email clients: LOGIN, PLAIN, NTLM, MD5, DIGEST MD5* 1, SMTP auth.* 2 * 1 not supported in Mozilla ThunderBird * 2 not supported in Kmail

6. 6 Features Flag, spell checking, signatures Colors, signatures, (spell checking) Flag, colors, spell checking, signatures Message features: Client features: HTML email, UTF-8, image blocking, junk filter, thread-view, PGP, S/MIME support

7. 7 Where to download? http://kmail.kde.org http://mozilla.com/thunderbird http://gnome.org/projects/evolution

8. Martin Valdner martin@valdner.com 31.10.2006 Linux Thank you for attention!