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Best Email Client (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago by C126@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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

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[-] kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 66 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
  • GUI: Thunderbird
  • TUI: neomutt
  • Android: K-9 (soon to be Thunderbird)
[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 30 points 1 month ago
[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

I only use K9 on Android. Everything else, web-based.

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 1 month ago

Using Evolution for desktop but about to give Thunderbird another shot I think.

[-] poinck@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Evolution here. I will likely never go back to Thunderbird.

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[-] dinckelman@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Evilschnuff@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

I had the same experience.

[-] arran4@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago
[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 41 points 1 month ago

Thunderbird

[-] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 month ago

i've always used thunderbird and never had any reason to try anything else.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I tried Betterbird, but had no end of certificate errors and trouble. Went back to tbird and all good again.

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

I had the opposite for some reason! Thunderbird started giving lots of weird errors, especially with Gmail, but Betterbird worked fine so I just ended up switching over.

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[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 25 points 1 month ago

I use Thunderbird. I'm sure there might be other ones that are better, but it does the job.

[-] foreverunsure@pawb.social 10 points 1 month ago
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[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago
[-] apoisel@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago
[-] Noxious@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago
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[-] pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org 6 points 1 month ago

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

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Whats the best email service? I use Thunderbird for just about everything, but gmail has been getting on my nerves lately. I would love to selfhost, but my internet service provider blocks port 25...

[-] Salix@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I personally like both Posteo and mailbox.org, but they are paid email services.

You can use them for your email, contacts, calendars, and tasks. On Android, you can use Davx5 to sync them.

[-] savvywolf@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago

I've been using Protonmail and it does the job (although not for free). To use it with Thunderbird I need to use a "bridge" background app to decrypt it though.

[-] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

Same here. That works well for desktop, they also have an electron app that wraps their web ui into a desktop app and it works well enough. Bridge works very well for any other desktop app you'd want to use.

The only trouble is that on mobile your option is their app or the web interface, no ability to use alternative apps. The mobile app is good, but not great.

Overall its a good service and I'm happy bit you need to know these limitations going in or it could be frustrating.

[-] C126@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Great question. Gmail is still OK, but if love to degoogle more.

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah I would love to get off google. Good to know others are thinking the same.

[-] fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

kmail...
it integrates well with, you know...
kde...

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[-] ramenu@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

I personally use Claws Mail.

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

They all fucking suck

[-] nyan@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

I prefer Claws Mail. It does what I need it to.

[-] banazir@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

The interface is a bit bare bones and 90's but I like it that way. It's a good and reliable client.

[-] shirro@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month 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.

[-] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

I've just moved to Thunderbird. I was never keen on the old design and found it rather clunky but the new UI I find much better.

I was using Mailspring but it has recently just refused to work on my device and I never even got a response on the community forums so I've just given up on it.

[-] bubstance 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

mail(1) or nedmail(1) is all I really need.

I prefer mutt/neomutt, but Thunderbird comes by default in basically every desktop-oriented distro I regularly interact with, so I end up using that most often on *nix. K-9 if I want it on my phone.

My true love is the combination of acme(1) and faces(1), but that doesn't do encryption/PGP stuff.

[-] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

Thunderbird

[-] glitch@lemy.lol 4 points 1 month ago

I like Evolution. Has email, contacts, calendar, and todos all in one. And pgp support out of the box.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

Sylpheed is the best. I thought everyone knew this.

[-] ouch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month 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 …

[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I use Thunderbird if I'm using Plasma and Geary if I'm using Gnome

[-] data1701d@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[-] TwinTusks@bitforged.space 2 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ishigami_san@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Gnus, aerc, neomutt

[-] anthony@lemmy.cif.su 2 points 1 month 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.

[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I have everything aggregated into Gmail, so I just use web and the mobile app. I'm looking at Proton but it doesn't have the "send as" feature for external SMTP services the Gmail does.

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