Buh-bye T-bird!!

I have found an all-in-one replacement for Thunderbird. I have discovered the elegance and beauty known as Kontact! With all of the necessary components, I have email, an address book, RSS feeds, a calendar, notes, to-do lists, and a journal.

After trying:

Claws-mail: I would have preferred to use it for its light weight, but it didn't have the functionality I needed.

Evolution: Extremely difficult to deal with, and somewhat unstable.

Balsa: the least functional of them all. All it does is email.

RSSOwl: Not bad, but a one trick pony. BTW, the only I've tried reader that can handle a Google Reader feed.

Liferea: Another standalone reader.

I have settle down into a somewhat hefty KDE interface, but it does everything I tried to get Thunderbird to do, which ended up making Thunderbird hefty, too. The only thing I can't do is move an RSS article from a feed into an IMAP folder, which I used to be able to do with Thunderbird.

Now I am quite happy. Let's see how long the honeymoon lasts.