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What's everyone's preferred email client these days?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

On my *nix machine I'm currently using NeoMutt & Aerc as MUA with different MTA/MRA. It suit my use case for reading lots of mailing list. Meanwhile on Android, currently using FairEmail. I was using K-9 Mail previously for over a decade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Evolution, I wish I could use Thunderbird, but that crashes when signing mails with my Yubikey.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 days ago

Thunderbird

[–] [email protected] 46 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I’ve tried basically everything under the sun, and keep returning to Thunderbird. Thankfully they’ve fixed the endless amount of performance issues with it.

Everything else is either in a horrible state, abandoned, or paid spyware that used to be a free project originally

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I had the same experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Thunderbird

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

They all fucking suck

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do you have Mozilla Suite? /s

Which web client do you prefer?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Firefox of course :) It's the last one that has no compromises. As an example, Brave offers similar adblock and privacy features, but at the cost of having to put up with Web3 stuff. wbu?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I personally use Claws Mail.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Still using mutt after two decades (with isync for fetching).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Evolution currently. Previously Thunderbird. I wouldn't mind a newer client but I am only interested in native apps talking to my email server over open standards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

mu4e because it's the best email client which runs in Emacs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

don’t really have a favorite – started with Thunderbird a long time ago but switched over to webmail fairly early on

now that I’ve started to build a new system, I started to look around at the various options (and maybe getting off webmail or at least having local storage “backup”) – the standard GUI clients (Thunderbird, Evolution, KMail, BlueMail, Mailspring) seem to be … fine – but none of them really stand out

recently stumbled across some nice screenshots of aerc and the idea sounds really appealing, but I’ve never had any contact with terminal email programs and found out they’ve followed a completely different evolutionary path than GUI apps (even terminology has diverged between the two) – GUI apps keep trying to be an all-in-one (email, contacts, calendar, tasks, …) whereas terminal programs almost seem to to favor a “balkanization” of effort – aerc looks like it’s grabbed a middle-ground, you can run it as standalone or go all in with a fully customized setup – problem I’m running into is I can find lots of “how” guides, but very little in the “what” or “why” side of things …

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sylpheed is the best. I thought everyone knew this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

That's a name I haven't seen in a while.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Thunderbird’s not bad, but I usually use web stuff.

I have an existing iCloud e-mail that I haven’t had the time to switch off of. I then use G-Mail for school stuff - since I’ve signed away my soul to Google anyway, might as well use what they have to offer.

Maybe one day, I’ll start my own personal e-mail utopia, nut that day is not today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Geary on mobile, Thunderbird on desktop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

To be honest, i still use Geary. It has a nice UI, and if you just read and write a small handful a month it still gets the job done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Gnus, aerc, neomutt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I'm not a big email user, tried some of the clients multiple times and always return to web.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I like neomutt and kmail.

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