email and RSS feeds.
FIGURE 4.4 Mozilla’s lightweight email client, Thunderbird, is used all over
the world. (© 1998–2018 by individual mozilla.org contributors)
As with Firefox, there are many plug-ins and extensions to enhance your
email. You can also use Thunderbird for Usenet news reading.
Evolution
Up until Ubuntu 11.10, Evolution was the default email client in Ubuntu,
although to call it simply an email client is to sincerely underrate its
usefulness as an application. Not only does it handle email, but it can also
look after contacts and calendars and help you manage your tasks (see Figure
4.5).
You need to have the following information to successfully configure
Evolution (or any other email client):
Your email address
Your incoming email server name and type (that is, pop.email.com, POP,
and IMAP)
Your username and password for the incoming mail server