On 18/01/14 13:54, Nux! wrote: > On 18.01.2014 13:19, Ned Slider wrote: >> On 17/01/14 22:59, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> On 01/17/2014 04:13 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>>> We don't have enough arguments here.... <g> >>>> >>>> I see that thunderbird's deprecated for RHEL 7, and they recommend >>>> evolution. I've certainly had some annoyances in the last >>>> couple-three >>>> years with t-bird. So, what are people's preferred mail tools, other >>>> than >>>> t-bird (or maybe mutt or pine.... <g>)? >>>> >>> >>> I will be using thunderbird from somewhere .. even if I have to build >>> it >>> myself >>> >> >> Same here. >> >> I don't think it will be a huge issue - Thunderbird is still in Fedora >> so it should be relatively easy to rebuild for RHEL7. Hopefully EPEL >> will pick it up. > > You can merely download, extract and run the binaries from Mozilla. > They run perfectly and can self-update: > https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/latest/ > I used to do that when FF/TB in the distro were quite outdated, but found the updating never worked for me, hence the convenience of maintained RPM packages. This was quite a few years ago, possibly around the time v3 was in the distro. If updating works I'm OK running the Mozilla binaries for my own personal usage, but I'd still prefer to be able to manage all updates with yum.