I have been using KDE for a while, while I like many features I am looking for suggestions to the default email client:
Kmail - completely unusable for me and the only one which could maybe be integrated with kontacts, it could not receive mails from IMAP or pop or would receive only sometimes
Geary - good but too minimal, I need at least some kind of contact list and mailing lists feature, maybe this integrates with gnome contacts? I couldn’t find anything in settings
There is always good old Thunderbird.
According to the official fediverse account of Thunderbird, they are not going to adopt the new Firefox EULA.
I use alpine when I want a text client, Thunderbird when I want graphical.
No one has mentioned the command line: aerc
I use it and it’s very minimal and clean.
I’ve used Thunderbird since forever as my go-to client, I used mutt as well for a while and that met my needs pretty well.
I use
aercthruhome-manageraccounts on NixOSI use evolution and it’s great even on kde
Try Betterbird.
Damn these guys are very passionate about how shitty thunderbird is
That is the correct answer
Thunderbird is the usual recommendation for an email client. So try that
I have no idea if Betterbird is actually better than regular Thunderbird, but I use that cause people said so and I read about it a bit. If it does die I guess I’ll switch to Thunderbird, just a little cautious about Mozilla after the privacy policy fiasco.
Betterbird is in flathub too which is great for newbies like me.
I’d be wary of that fork. It’s run by a former Thunderbird dev that got banned for his toxic attitude and hasn’t really improved since. Just take a look at the projects website. Being so unrespectful towards your upstream project should have no place in open-source.
Operated by MZLA Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, Thunderbird is an independent, community-driven project that is managed and overseen by the Thunderbird Council, which is elected by the Thunderbird community.
Ah that’s a relief
Thunderbird
Kmail, Thunderbird, Evolution. That’s pretty much it.
There’s always some weird niche client somewhere but it won’t be a hidden gem. Although I guess you can always use Pine (or rather Alpine nowadays) if you want to appear ubergeeky.
Mailspring
If your into Linux and a decent admin. Nothing is better than neomutt. Add not much.
Filtering and searching is faster than Google on gigs of mail.
It will take a long time to configure it well. But it’s worth it. I rarely change the config.
I have been using Linux since 1992.
I can’t wait to poke around neomutt when I set up my computer
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Thunderbird
It is bot the most feature rich and the most annoying thing, but it works
I’ve been using Betterbird for a while and I like it. It’s based on Thunderbird.
I second this! It seems to have more features than Thunderbird while being just a fifth of the file size.
I can‘t confirm this, but I have read elsewhere that Thunderbird is a bit bloated.
Aren’t you concerned that the development is in the hands of just one guy?
Not the above poster, but for me: it’s a slight concern but AFAIK the profiles are interchangeable so it’s pretty trivial to just switch back to Thunderbird if anything does happen.
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That‘s not how it works. The mails are not stored on BetterBird servers (there are none). Your mails are stored on your E-Mail providers server (like Gmail) and downloaded to your local client via IMAP or POP3.
The developer of BetterBird does not have access to any of that.
Oh, understood. Dumb me, lol.
So, aren’t there security risks associated with using Betterbird?
Every time I look around for a new mail client I come back to thunderbird. Nothing else ticks all the boxes
