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Mike Paradis

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<p>Does anyone know of a stable and well maintained/updated email client that could replace zimbra desktop. Ideally, it should run on Linux/KDE desktops without needing wine for example.</p><p><br></p><p>Zimbra does have a backup function but I'm not sure that it also saves all of the settings and archives emails for each account.</p><p><br></p><p>What ever could replace this should be able to import everything backed up but if it cannot do settings, that's not a deal breaker.</p>
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Does anyone know of a stable and well maintained/updated email client that could replace zimbra desktop. Ideally, it should run on Linux/KDE desktops without needing wine for example.
Zimbra does have a backup function but I'm not sure that it also saves all of the settings and archives emails for each account.
What ever could replace this should be able to import everything backed up but if it cannot do settings, that's not a deal breaker.

What can replace zimbra desktop?

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Email Clients

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