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

  • dinckel
    32•1 year 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

      • @ShortN0te@lemmy.ml
        2•1 year ago

        EAS is not implemented so imap and pop3 only. But i heard they currently work on EAS and should be arriving in the near future.

        For EAS there is also a paid plugin Owl i think.

    • @ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4•1 year ago

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

      • Random DentEnglish
        3•1 year 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.

  • TurboWafflz
    3•1 year ago

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

    • @banazir@lemmy.ml
      2•1 year ago

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

  • @k4j8@lemmy.world
    1•1 year ago

    I use Mailspring. The only thing missing from Mailspring for me is seeing what folders my emails are in when I run a search. Otherwise, it’s the only non-CLI client I’ve found that let’s me use the keyboard to select multiple emails and move them to a folder, something I do in Gmail.

    If anyone knows of others, let me know! I’ve tried Claws, Evolution, Geary, KMail, and Thunderbird in addition to Mutt and aerc in hopes of finding something to replace Gmail.

  • mesaEnglish
    5•1 year 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
      6•1 year 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.

      • mesaEnglish
        2•1 year ago

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

      • mesaEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        I’ve done it once before with mailinabox. It worked for a while…then we moved.

        Just seeing what my options are. Thanks!

  • Baron Von J
    1•1 year 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.

      • Baron Von J
        2•1 year ago

        I’m honestly a bit surprised that Proton doesn’t seem to have the send as feature. I was able to find at least 15 posts across their uservoice.com site and their Reddit forum, spanning at least 6 years, with one of the uservoice posts having over 300 votes. I just gathered up all the links and sent it into Proton Mail support. Hopefully having all that thrown at them in one big bundle will prompt their project managers to consider it.

    • @displaced_city_mouse@midwest.socialEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      I tried KMail and Organizer for a few weeks, but they kept losing connection with Gmail. My calendar would get out of sync, and they only way to fix it was to reset the connection and redo all the appointments.

      I’m sure it was user error, since I couldn’t figure it out after spending a couple hours on it, so I just dropped back to webmail and not leaving the mail tab open all day.

      • @NotAnArdvark@lemmy.ca
        2•1 year ago

        I tried using KOrganize which had KMail and some other stuff integrated together and ended up feeling like it was a gigantic, archaic codebase just hanging on by a thread. It struggled a lot with Gmail and several times I deleted my whole mail profile to try to fix some strange bug.

        If I recall, what did me in was that it would stop sending emails after running for a while. The fix had something to do with restarting Akonadi. It was really disappointing, because I love a good UI/Plasma integration.

        I use Thunderbird now and … eh. It’s ok.

  • Daeraxa
    5•1 year 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.

  • @tetris11@lemmy.ml
    1•1 year ago

    I used to have lieer’s gmi (read: mbsync with gmail tag syncing) paired with notmuch. It’s good when it works, but it’s annoying to need a service in the background.

    I used to use Gnus, but Gnus is sometimes weirds out if your tag filters are too complex for it