What’s everyone’s preferred email client these days?
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.
Evolution, I wish I could use Thunderbird, but that crashes when signing mails with my Yubikey.
Thunderbird
They all fucking suck
Evolution
mu4e because it’s the best email client which runs in Emacs.
Geary on mobile, Thunderbird on desktop.
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.
I like neomutt and kmail.
I’m just using Gmail lol. I don’t really do anything with email.
- GUI: Thunderbird
- Terminal: neomutt
- Android: K-9 (soon to be Thunderbird)
Fairemail
I only use K9 on Android. Everything else, web-based.
Using Evolution for desktop but about to give Thunderbird another shot I think.
Evolution here. I will likely never go back to Thunderbird.
Same - Evolution offers one thing Firebird dosen’t - connecting to the work cloud Microsoft account!
If only they’d change the dumb way date time entry works for the calendar it would be near perfect.
Try gnome-calender as a evolution-data-server frontend.
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
I had the same experience.
Agreed
Thunderbird
i’ve always used thunderbird and never had any reason to try anything else.
I tried Betterbird, but had no end of certificate errors and trouble. Went back to tbird and all good again.
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.
Does Thunderbird have unified inbox? And how well does it deal with Exchange? Just do imap mode?
Yes to unified inbox, not sure about exchange but works well with IMAP
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.
I use Thunderbird. I’m sure there might be other ones that are better, but it does the job.