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

  • dinckel@lemmy.world
    46·
    2 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
      4·
      2 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
        3·
        2 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·
      2 months ago

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

      • ShortN0te@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 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
    25·
    2 months ago

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

    • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Yeah every once in a while I get restless and start thinking I should learn how to use Mutt or something, but I always end up going back to Thunderbird/Betterbird lol

    • Sbauer@lemmy.world
      31·
      2 months ago

      Great, a subscription based mail program. Because that’s clearly what people want and need, paying rent for the software on their machines.

      • Noxious@fedia.io
        3·
        2 months ago

        Nothing about the program itself is subscription based. All of the normal features of an email client (that you would also find in Thunderbird) are available for free. You only need to pay if you want to use their services like Send later, read receipts or link tracking, because these requires backend servers and actually costs the money.

    • displaced_city_mouse@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I tried KMail and Organizer for a few weeks, but they kept losing connection with Gmail. My calendar would get out of sync, and they only way to fix it was to reset the connection and redo all the appointments.

      I’m sure it was user error, since I couldn’t figure it out after spending a couple hours on it, so I just dropped back to webmail and not leaving the mail tab open all day.

      • NotAnArdvark
        2·
        2 months ago

        I tried using KOrganize which had KMail and some other stuff integrated together and ended up feeling like it was a gigantic, archaic codebase just hanging on by a thread. It struggled a lot with Gmail and several times I deleted my whole mail profile to try to fix some strange bug.

        If I recall, what did me in was that it would stop sending emails after running for a while. The fix had something to do with restarting Akonadi. It was really disappointing, because I love a good UI/Plasma integration.

        I use Thunderbird now and … eh. It’s ok.

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    Whats the best email service? I use Thunderbird for just about everything, but gmail has been getting on my nerves lately. I would love to selfhost, but my internet service provider blocks port 25…

    • Salix@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      2 months ago

      I personally like both Posteo and mailbox.org, but they are paid email services.

      You can use them for your email, contacts, calendars, and tasks. On Android, you can use Davx5 to sync them.

    • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      I’ve been using Protonmail and it does the job (although not for free). To use it with Thunderbird I need to use a “bridge” background app to decrypt it though.

      • fuzzzerd@programming.devEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        Same here. That works well for desktop, they also have an electron app that wraps their web ui into a desktop app and it works well enough. Bridge works very well for any other desktop app you’d want to use.

        The only trouble is that on mobile your option is their app or the web interface, no ability to use alternative apps. The mobile app is good, but not great.

        Overall its a good service and I’m happy bit you need to know these limitations going in or it could be frustrating.

      • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I’ve done it once before with mailinabox. It worked for a while…then we moved.

        Just seeing what my options are. Thanks!

      • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Yeah I would love to get off google. Good to know others are thinking the same.