I use Thunderbird.
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Thunderbird since forever. Before that, Seamonkey and the Mozilla suite.
There are some changes I didn't like over the years like the tabbed interface for everything, but nothing else ever came along that worked as well and was multi-platform.
Thunderbird.
It is the worst email client besides all the alternatives
Thunderbird - on my PC and Mobile... Always worked flawlessly - both with my different mail-services and my own domain name mail server...
Thunderbird. I even use Thunderbird as my RSS reader too.
Þis is þe way.
I use msync and notmuch, to provide Google-like tagging and searching, and to keep a local email cache so it's faster, but aerc supports boþ notmuch and IMAP, so you get boþ.
I'm almost disappointed to learn you don't use Þunderbird.
I really respect your comittment to using þorns here, even though it means people probably down vote you because they don't know what's going on.
Just wanted to let you know. Keep it up :)
As a Gnome/GTK enthusiast, I really love Geary. I think it’s the email client that integrates best with the Gnome environment!
Geary is very polished and shiny. I ended up not using it because I have a lot of folders, automatic rules to sort things, different signatures and addresses and some of the advanced email stuff isn't in there. But definitely worth a look for someone with a simpler private email inbox. And so much more intuitive to use than for example Thunderbird.
aerc+mbsync+notmuch
If you want a GUI, I was using Evolution before aerc and I was happy with it. I just prefer keyboard navigation which naturally is well supported by any TUI application.
Thunderbird
I use AERC. TUI that is just so painfully easy to use. integrates with whatever editor you use like vim or emacs or whatever. Account setup is a breeze via a config file thus making it easy to backup. I have it in my nix config so whenever I take my nixos anywhere or reinstall it I instantly have my email ready to go.
How about isync + notmuch + afew + alot + msmtp? gpg decryption not directly supported but using alot's pipeto it can be used to decrypt messages. As using notmuch as indexer it's flow is pretty similar/compatible to/with gmail.
It depends on your preferences of course. Notmuch offers a way fast indexer you can't get with traditional gui applications, but by itself it's not pretty useful, however the integration with other tools makes it really powerful, with afew you get your personal tagging when messages arrive (filters), with alot you just get the email frontend. If you like the terminal experience, then you'd know you need something extra for smtp (writing emails) and there you have for example msmtp. It's a matter of choice. I mentioned notmuch since the traditional approach to the terminal is plain neomutt, but there are alternatives. isync (mbsync) actually interacts well with neomutt but it also does it with notmuch, and neomutt can be used as a frontend for notmuch as well. A matter of choices.
The thing with solutions like thunderbird is that you have to adhere to their design decisions. For example I don't like their librnp implementation, and I had to create alpm hooks on artix to keep updating such library with sequoia-octopus-librnp, not because I like rust (I don't dislike it either), but because at least I can keep just one keyring, and thunderbird when not having a master password (the default) keeps its keyring unencrypted, and I pretty much see no reason not to use gnupg. So I decided I better kept using gnupg's keyring and stuff. Integrating different tools designed for specific purposes you have more freedom of choice. At any rate that's how unix was conceived, and you can choose to do it that way if you want.
Any halfway decent desktop email client will do the job—people have already listed several. I use claws-mail, but getting it to work with GMail involves the computer equivalent of doing a triple backflip through a hoop, so you may want to go with something more common.
I've tried Vivaldi mail. Might be something for you, but I just didn't like the UI so I'm also still using the web interface for each. Looking forward to seeing others answer as well.
ArcaneChat on mobile
what is this, is it anything like Delta Chat? (i.e. the UI of a chat app but using email for sending/receiving messages)
I've been trying out Delta Chat for messaging my family. It's a bit kludgy and messy though, at least when interacting with others who are using regular email clients. For instance, it sometimes sends multiple emails rather than bundling it up as one.
fork in close relation with DeltaChat!
cleans up some cludge for some smoothness instead :3
maybe those issues you're having will go away after some bug reporting? /genuine encouragement, neutral tone
Nice, I'll give it a whirl. Their their website says, "ArcaneChat is a Delta Chat client" so maybe it deals with the issues I've had better.
bug reporting
I'm looking for projects I can contribute to in some way, so definitely not averse to bug reporting. From some discussions on the forum, the way I'm using it isn't really supported and they're really aimed at people who want to chat securely without being tied to proprietary networks. But I'm certainly not the only one who would prefer not to use proprietary chat protocols like WhatsApp, but there's just too many other people I'd have to convince to switch to yet another chat app. Delta Chat / ArcaneChat really seem to offer a way forward for people like me, but the chat experience for people using regular email clients has to be very good - people get annoyed quickly if they receive 5 emails in a row each containing a single picture followed by a 6th email that just contains text (which is how my attempt at a message sharing some photos came through for email users)
maybe! =)
cool that you are of a mind to contribute to the projects you rely on.
i am personally curious now: are you using another email provider for chatting with other's regular email addresses? i imagine the deltachat programs are optimized for use with chatmail addresses exclusively- and other email providers either playing nice with open standards or not. for example i hear there is a hassle tuning things to fit proprietary email providers.
yes I'm using my regular email and messaging family members using theirs.
It's working fine, except for the occasional issue like I mentioned, i.e. sending multiple emails for one message.
I don't know what it's doing about encryption - it seems to use it when it knows the other party supports it, but that's not my priority at this point, my aim is to encourage people to move off WhatsApp (this is what all my chatting takes place on). I'm kind of using the family chat as guinea pigs really.
here's an address to a sockpuppet account i just made using ArcaneChat and the official chatmail servers, for anyone's interest in testing it out in vitu
Contact me on ArcaneChat:
Does it work for gmail, yahoo, etc ?
Betterbird
Also Thunderbird, but specifically the Betterbird fork.
It works well, its fast, its lightweight (like 100-200MB of RAM), and has lots of features.
I also have my calendar in it.
At this point I'm thinking of creating my own client haha.
I believe MailSpring is really powerful. But some advanced features are behind a pro account. MailSpring itself is open source.
I don't. That's the entire point about having different mailboxes in the first place : they stay isolated and I manage notifications (or not) exactly how I want, when I want.
I use Mailspring. Thunderbird was crashing a lot for me a few months ago but I had used TB for a long time so I will probably move back to it soon.
Kmail on Android, Evolution on laptop.
Evo is a little clunky looking but it integrates calendar, contacts, and does PGP seamlessly using Gnome's key manager.
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