Extension of the Week
Other day I was discussing the pros and cons of different browsers and an Opera fan pointed that Firefox doesn’t have a built-in mail client. Although Opera Mail is really nice, I don’t care about the lack of such feature, because one of the most strongest Firefox features is the possibility of customizing and extending it’s capabilities with add-ons. There are tons of extensions that allows to improve webmail experience, specially if you use Gmail, but there is also an excellent e-mail client, called Simple Mail.
As the name suggest, Simple Mail is very simple to configure and manage, but that doesn’t mean it lacks important features, like IMAP support.
Unlike Opera and standalone Linux mail clients, it puts all messages on the same inbox folder by default. Nevertheless, you still can create new folders and filters to organize multiple accounts or use the filter feature to display only messages from a particular account.
Simple Mail stores accounts and messages on a single sqlite database file, which makes pretty easy to backup, although attachments are stored on a separate folder. Both can be found in the simplemail folder, under your Firefox profile directory. Passwords are stored by Firefox password manager, but you can install extensions to integrate it with Gnome Keyring or Kwallet.
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