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What is a good email client for Gmail on linux where all emails are synced and searchable? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I want an email client that can download all of my existing Gmail emails and then i can search for them quickly. I have tried Thunderbird, Mailspring, Clawmail, Geary. Some of them can download all of the emails, but when it comes to time to search, they often freeze. Thus, I would then need to do the old fashion way: open up a browser and login from there.

Is Mutt ok with such requirements? Any other alternatives?

I also use GrapheneOS on my phone. Before I had Fairmail for my Gmail account but the search feature is quite buggy. So.... even though i know it is shitty, I have to use the official Gmail app for my Gmail stuff. It gets the jobs done: i can search for an email 3 months ago or follow up on an old email thread very quickly.

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[–] 15 points 5 months ago (1 child)

I'm a bit puzzled - I have literally gigabytes of emails downloaded to thunderbird and I don't get any freezes on searching - there's 15 years of emails from my personal domain, plus 2008-2012 of active use and then passive amounts since on gmail, PLUS 3 work domains over several years in that set and I've never had it freeze.

My machine is adequate but not top end (32GbRam, Ryzen 7 3700X, 2Tb NVME/M2 SSD) - it was "good" 4 years ago when I assembled it, it's probably bottom tier by now. Running Arch, but also dual boot Mint - both are fine with it.

Just checked -there's 10.3Gb in the personal domain alone. Have a look at your PC config - unless you have tiny amounts of RAM or are running on a super slow HDD there's something wrong with this picture

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    my machine lags yours by about 7-8 generations and has zero problems with the same task. I've imported 15+ 20+ years worth of emails from multiple gmail accounts into a local server's dovecot IMAP server (and thunderbird has a local copy). no part of that thing freezes or does anything of the sort OP describes.

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