I use Thunderbird.
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Sometimes you just cant beat the classics.
Especially when the classic Thunderbird was just overhauled with modern UI
(Which you can disable, luckily. I still use the classic layout with the table of emails on top and the selected email below)
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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
I like Betterbird, I find it slightly more less worst.
Betterbird
Thunderbird
Same
Thunderbird - on my PC and Mobile... Always worked flawlessly - both with my different mail-services and my own domain name mail server...
I used to use Thunderbird, but their PGP integration always crashed the whole program. I now use Evolution.
Interesting, GPG has been working just fine for me so far.
My main issue with it remains that barely anyone else uses GPG.
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Good ol Thunderbird
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.
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seamonkey and thunderbird are both good
Thunderbird and neomutt.
Betterbird
why is your name red?
Bcs i'm a server admin on dbzer0
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.
I use FairEmail on phone and Sylpheed on desktop.
Evolution.
I like evolution a lot
Came to say this. I was a Thunderbird user like we all but it started to annoy me with tabs and too many features. I gave Evolutiona a try and haven't looked back since. It's as simple and solid as the Email protocol, with build in contacts, tasks and calendar. I'm managing a hand full of email addresses with it, it's responsive, no bells nor whistles, perfect for me!
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.
Do you really use all of those? I don't see the point in using so many tools when there are many standalone programs that can accomplish the same task.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Thunderbird
fairmail on phone, postbox on pc
I tried using Gmail through Thunderbird, but the problem is that the filtering is web UI only
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.
mu4e inside my Emacs session.
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.
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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.
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