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monsterstack
May 6th, 2009, 08:55 AM
I use Thunderbird as it does all these things and it is easy to use. But I might change soon. I'd like to know what some of you folks use and why. :)

steeleyuk
May 6th, 2009, 09:17 AM
Evolution
Liferea
Pan

etnlIcarus
May 6th, 2009, 02:35 PM
Liferea does what I need it to do. Only complaints are it doesn't handle viewing large 'folders' of feeds well and the double-click link to open in browser/middle-click link to open in liferea tab behaviour strikes me as being backwards.

If you use KDE or don't mind mixed apps, Akkregator is slightly better.

pwnst*r
May 6th, 2009, 02:35 PM
netvibes

Ms_Angel_D
May 6th, 2009, 02:46 PM
Email:Evolution
RSS: Google Reader + Google Reader Watcher Firefox extension
Newsgroups: Don't use them

DocForbin
May 10th, 2009, 10:13 PM
For rss, I've been using whatever version of liferea is in the 8.10 repo. It's decent, but a bit buggy and not particularly feature rich. It often shows items as unread that are read. I've seen it start using 100% of my cpu out of nowhere.

mobilediesel
May 10th, 2009, 10:16 PM
Email: Claws Mail
RSS: Google Reader
Newsgroups: Newsgroups still exist?

monsterstack
May 10th, 2009, 10:17 PM
Email: Claws Mail
RSS: Google Reader
Newsgroups: Newsgroups still exist?

Yes. There is an ongoing attempt to marginalise and hinder them, but they still exist. Have a look at google groups: still a very active place.

bashveank
May 10th, 2009, 10:24 PM
Mail: Hosted by GMail, as well as my university, accessed with Mail.app on my laptop, gmail.com everywhere else.
RSS: Subscriptions hosted in the cloud with NewsFire, accessed on my laptop with NetNewsWire, everywhere else with the online NewsFire reader.
Newsgroups: Panic's Unison for the few occasions when I want to access a usenet newsgroup.

mobilediesel
May 10th, 2009, 10:43 PM
Yes. There is an ongoing attempt to marginalise and hinder them, but they still exist. Have a look at google groups: still a very active place.

Already marginalized and hindered. I haven't looked at newsgroups in probably 10 years. Now I remember why. The first couple groups I try to look at have "rape porn" near the top.

Pretty much the same as 10 years ago...

gnomeuser
May 10th, 2009, 10:47 PM
Email: GMail
RSS: Google Reader
News: n/a

FuturePilot
May 10th, 2009, 10:48 PM
Email- Thunderbird
RSS- Liferea
Newsgroup- N/A

kaligus
September 19th, 2009, 05:25 PM
ALL after much gnashing (or maybe gnushing) of teeth and research.

RSS: RssOwl though even it is slightly less than I really want (edit: 80% solution)

mail: thunderbird 98% solution for me

Usenet/Newsreader Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 under Wine because NOTHING I have tried native even makes 1% solution for my needs/desires and Agent makes 98% and has done for a decade now.

Mark76
September 19th, 2009, 06:20 PM
Email: Seamonkey Mail and News
RSS: ROX ReTicker panel applet + Seamonkey Browser
Newsgroups: Seamonkey Mail and News

:popcorn:

collinp
September 19th, 2009, 06:56 PM
Email: Thunderbird
RSS: RSSOwl
Usenet/Newsgroup: Thunderbird

andrew.46
September 20th, 2009, 10:20 AM
Well, I am a commandline kind of guy:

Email: mutt (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1021746)
RSS: newsbeuter
Usenet/Newsgroup: slrn (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/slrn)

Andrew

ynnhoj
September 20th, 2009, 10:25 AM
email: gmail
rss: snownews

for a while i was using canto to read rss feeds, but eventually came back to snownews.

texpat
September 20th, 2009, 10:30 AM
I started off with Evolution. Its the default e-mail client when you install Ubuntu, and it is great. Integrates with calendars and such so you can get alerts when its someone's birthday, for example.

I switched to Thunderbird, though, when I ran into problems using a second e-mail account. It is also great for newsgroups, btw. It was a real pain that the formats in which they save contacts are not the same, so I had to go through some hoops to transfer them (it'll probably be easier going Thunderbird -> Evolution than the other war around).

Good Luck!

chriskin
September 20th, 2009, 10:50 AM
emails through browser, rss through liferea
e...what is a newsgroup? :)

pt123
September 20th, 2009, 11:55 AM
RSS- RSSowl miles ahead of Liferea in filtering news

MellonCollie
September 20th, 2009, 12:09 PM
Email & RSS: Opera
Newsgroups: Opera for text, Newsleecher for binaries.

purgatori
September 20th, 2009, 12:40 PM
Email: mutt
RSS: raggle