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the latest debian 6 there isnt any email.

please someone tell me how to install a decent email program and get it working in the LXDE desktop ive been serching for over three hours now and im giving up the will to live.

open terminal

sudo apt-get install thunderbird

Any use?  PS, no Pi, but IIRC TB is in deb arm repo.  There may be more lightweight clients available - others will input if so

package thunderbird has no installation cadidate and fails./

now what.?

im a novice to linux been running that bloatware windows for too many years.

help !!!!

Hmm,  I thought I'd pulled TB from the repo a while ago, but it seems not, in which case sorry....I'll have to step aside and let a knowledgeable person step in! Sorry, don't use email on my pi build

Thunderbird has been renamed Icedove in Debian.

icedove installls but i couldnt get it to work or run .?

im the same as the original poster looking for email on my PI

does anyone with a PI actually using the latest debian download have a working email program so i can email from a pi to world./?

After extensive research (about 5 s with Google), I found this...

http://wiki.debian.org/EmailClients

Couldn't you just install Synaptic and browse the "Email" section? There's a bunch of clients in there.

ok found a working email application

$ aptitude install evolution

from terminal  the LXterminal in LDXE  works with all my email addresses and all types of servers seams secure and easy not to processor intensisve have a look and try,

the versions shown above seam not to run on Pis. the uname -a shows armv6 and the pKgs are all i386 but evolution is arm6l so it works

I tried email in the debian 19-4-2012 with no problems. I'm running using qemu, not the real hardware.

Resize the image and extend the main partition

sudo apt-get install synaptic

set sudo-mode to true

In synaptic review the list of email applications and chose icedove

Install icedove

Run it, follow the setup process, this meant giiving it the name I wanted to use and the username and password for the mail server. Answer a few questions, wait a bit and that was it. It receives and sends email.

You can also install the software center, which will help you a lot in searching a program.

Write in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install software-center