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

  • dinckel@lemmy.world
    42·
    6 months 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

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

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

      • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        6 months 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.

    • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      6 months ago

      Does Thunderbird have unified inbox? And how well does it deal with Exchange? Just do imap mode?

      • ShortN0te@lemmy.ml
        2·
        6 months 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.

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    10·
    6 months ago

    I use Thunderbird. I’m sure there might be other ones that are better, but it does the job.

  • shirro@aussie.zoneEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    Evolution currently. Previously Thunderbird. I wouldn’t mind a newer client but I am only interested in native apps talking to my email server over open standards.

  • rhys@lemmy.rhys.wtfEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    I’m boring and just use Thunderbird nowadays, but sometimes I yearn for those simpler days when I daily drove aerc.

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
    3·
    6 months ago

    don’t really have a favorite – started with Thunderbird a long time ago but switched over to webmail fairly early on

    now that I’ve started to build a new system, I started to look around at the various options (and maybe getting off webmail or at least having local storage “backup”) – the standard GUI clients (Thunderbird, Evolution, KMail, BlueMail, Mailspring) seem to be … fine – but none of them really stand out

    recently stumbled across some nice screenshots of aerc and the idea sounds really appealing, but I’ve never had any contact with terminal email programs and found out they’ve followed a completely different evolutionary path than GUI apps (even terminology has diverged between the two) – GUI apps keep trying to be an all-in-one (email, contacts, calendar, tasks, …) whereas terminal programs almost seem to to favor a “balkanization” of effort – aerc looks like it’s grabbed a middle-ground, you can run it as standalone or go all in with a fully customized setup – problem I’m running into is I can find lots of “how” guides, but very little in the “what” or “why” side of things …