Hi, I tried using an email client over a year ago, and after trying almost all of them in the span of a week I gave up in frustration. Would anyone have a recommendation ? For an email client :
- That is actively maintained
- That is not controlled by a company that could pull a Mozilla on it (Thunderbird)
- That isn’t proprietary
- That doesn’t need 77 dependencies and 450 GB (WTF KMail 😭 )
- That is reasonably fast and light and not too bloated (I just want to read emails, I don’t need a full app suite…)
- That supports POP
- That supports writing HTML messages (sorry Claws, I really liked you but occasionally I kinda need to write formatted messages to preserve other people’s sanity 😅 )
- That supports reading HTML messages without showing the HTML version as attachments so that every single email has the paperclip icon and I can’t tell which messages have real attachments (Sylpheed I think ?)
- That supports MailDir format for portability (why isn’t it the default everywhere already instead of weird non-portable formats ? 😭 )
- If possible, that doesn’t have an interface that’s so awful it’s a pain to find anything (Thunderbird)
I also tested Geary and another one but I don’t remember much about it… I can’t find out whether Geary does support POP and maildir, its documentation page is… well it’s a list 8 lines long, but on a page called “Documentation” so it’s technically counts as documentation I guess ? 😅 https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary/Documentation
Any recommendation would be greatly appreciated !
Evolution.
I have used Thunderbird a lot, but finally decided to go back to Evolution 2 years ago.
I just installed Evolution to give it a try but it’s throwing fits –and by fits I mean segfaults 😑
But I’ll be switching to a new drive and new distro in a few weeks so I’ll try again and see if it works then
Just a note: its more of a Personal information manager(it includes calender,contacts,to do,etc) rather then just a email client
Well I year ago I would have said “no way I want an email client that does email and nothing else” but after trying so many of them I’m fine ignoring the stuff I don’t use as long as it doesn’t get in the way so I’ll look it up thanks !
I basically use it only for mail, although I have set up my calender there, too. The evolution-data-server makes it possible to access the calender entries using gnome-calender which has a modern gui.
You can still accept email invites in evolution and see them in gnome-calendar. It works very well with my radical server.
And second bonus, it integrates your dates with gnome-shell. Just disable notifications in evolution to don’t get them twice. (:
Alr yw