What email client do you use?

YellowHummingbird

Hope you're all well at this unusual time!

I'm trying to de-Google my life a bit - especially now my GSuite cost is going up. Part of that is moving my email away from there - and I'm trying to find a nice email client for my phone and my (arch linux) desktop.

On desktop, I don't particularly like the look of Thunderbird, but it seems to work well. I've been experimenting with mutt, which I really like - but no mobile alternative.

On iOS, I liked Canary Mail - it's not cheap, but it's super powerful and has support for aliases and more. However, their privacy policy says (regarding email login details) that "All of this information is stored on your device and is never transferred to our servers." When I logged all my mobile traffic using Charles Proxy, I saw that it's phoning home to them (dev.canarymail.io:9001/post/unsubscribe) with a device identifier and my email addresses, even though I've (a) disabled analytics and (b) disabled push notifications. So I no longer feel I can trust them entirely, and ended up moving to Outlook, which is actually a very well put together app - much better than I expected.

I'm intrigued to know what other people are using for email - do you have an email setup that works well for you?

DP

Mutt.

serv_ee

Thunderbird

Freek

Synology MailPlus

debaser

@serv_ee said:
Thunderbird

This

angstrom

The two main email clients that I use (depending on the server) are:

• nmh (New Message Handler) with Emacs interface
• Read Mail on Usermin

Hirose

Postbox works great for my needs. Has both Windows and macOS clients: https://www.postbox-inc.com/

Edit: Oh. missed that you wanted a Linux client. Sorry.

InceptionHosting

OWA.

mikho

Outlook,,, or OWA. Depending on which computer I'm using.

vyas

Zoho mail and Geary

flips

MailPlane for macOS (and mutt)

NanoG6

On iOS I’m using default mail app for personal email and outlook for work. And on PC I’m using Windows 10 mail app (personal) and outlook (work). Outlook does the job really well right now, can’t complain.

InceptionHosting

@mikho said:
Outlook,,, or OWA. Depending on which computer I'm using.

My OWA was down 2 days ago, I had to revert to using outlook, felt like I had stepped back in time by 15 years!

Unixfy

@AnthonySmith said: OWA

Self hosted OWA?

Not_Oles

I use nmh cuz I like the unix philosophy of stitching together tiny, single function commands with pipes. But, when I again renew my setup, in maybe a year or two, I expect to move to mmh.

Any unix philosophy freak deciding on a mail user agent these days might want to look at The Modern Mail Handler, Markus Schnalke's Masters Thesis.

verjin

Eudora

vyas

@verjin said:
Eudora

foxone

EVOLUTION

angstrom

@Not_Oles said:
I use nmh cuz I like the unix philosophy of stitching together tiny, single function commands with pipes.

I also use nmh on a couple of servers (see above), but I prefer to use the Emacs interface

But, when I again renew my setup, in maybe a year or two, I expect to move to mmh.

Any unix philosophy freak deciding on a mail user agent these days might want to look at The Modern Mail Handler, Markus Schnalke's Masters Thesis.

I've never used mmh, but it strikes me as a one-man show, whereas nmh at least has a few core developers!

I'm a bit tempted to try out the mh clone included in GNU Mailutils ( https://mailutils.org/ ), which apparently is IMAP-aware, unlike nmh.

bikegremlin

MXroute for domain emails, connected to Gmail client.

InceptionHosting

@Unixfy said:

@AnthonySmith said: OWA

Self hosted OWA?

Used to do that, now for the sake of £25 a year I just have ovh hosted exchange.

Mr_Tom

I used to use pine directly on the mail server years ago but I use Thunderbird pretty much on all PCs now.

CamoYoshi

I'm happy with Thunderbird, does what I need. On Android I'm using K9 Mail, but I'm having some issues with consistently getting mail from my mobile device, seems to be some issue with K9 getting its sync stuck. But if I go in and force-refresh it, it works better for a while.

bdl

I use Fastmail and have been using their web interface on desktop and supplied app on iOS/Android/iPadOS

Naix

@bdl said:
I use Fastmail and have been using their web interface on desktop and supplied app on iOS/Android/iPadOS

Same here. I really like their UI, clean and simple.

mikho

@AnthonySmith said:

@mikho said:
Outlook,,, or OWA. Depending on which computer I'm using.

My OWA was down 2 days ago, I had to revert to using outlook, felt like I had stepped back in time by 15 years!

Paying for Microsoft 365 licenses, putting it in good use.
It has changed alot over the years.

Unixfy

I am paying for G Suite and Amazon WorkMail, works great. I used to use MS 365 but OneDrive/SharePoint pushed me away :P

rajprakash

Nine on my Android phone, and either Sylpheed (Linux) or Thunderbird (Linux or Windows) for desktop.

FootKaput

Postbox on Windows, OWA at work, Native IOS on the phone, mutt on my vps boxes. Have O365 personal but not been a fan of outlook.

sonic

Gmal for iOS

Not_Oles

@angstrom said:

@Not_Oles said:
I use nmh cuz I like the unix philosophy of stitching together tiny, single function commands with pipes.

I also use nmh on a couple of servers (see above), but I prefer to use the Emacs interface

But, when I again renew my setup, in maybe a year or two, I expect to move to mmh.

Any unix philosophy freak deciding on a mail user agent these days might want to look at The Modern Mail Handler, Markus Schnalke's Masters Thesis.

I've never used mmh, but it strikes me as a one-man show, whereas nmh at least has a few core developers!

I'm a bit tempted to try out the mh clone included in GNU Mailutils ( https://mailutils.org/ ), which apparently is IMAP-aware, unlike nmh.

YellowHummingbird

Thanks for all the responses, loads of great options!

Ended up switching to neomutt on desktop, and set it up to compile markdown emails into emails with two alternative contants: a plain text email, and a HTML email. That way people using plain text clients get a decent email out of it, but I can also do the formatting to make it look nice for people using clients that support HTML. I'll post a writeup of that on my blog fairly soon, as I haven't seen a full walkthrough of how to do it.

FastMail and Amazon WorkMail both look really nice...tempting me to move away from my plan to self host mail again

Not_Oles

@YellowHummingbird said: neomutt

Google probably could tell me, but is neomutt a project of the same guys behind neovim?

YellowHummingbird

@Not_Oles said:

@YellowHummingbird said: neomutt

Google probably could tell me, but is neomutt a project of the same guys behind neovim?

I don't think so It's a fork of mutt that seemed to arise from disagreements on the code style of mutt - it's handy for my purposes because it supports "content-type: multipart/alternative" that lets me put the text/html alternative content in one email, which mutt didn't seem to be able to do.

Amadex

ms outlook

comi

@YellowHummingbird said:
Thanks for all the responses, loads of great options!

Ended up switching to neomutt on desktop, and set it up to compile markdown emails into emails with two alternative contants: a plain text email, and a HTML email. That way people using plain text clients get a decent email out of it, but I can also do the formatting to make it look nice for people using clients that support HTML. I'll post a writeup of that on my blog fairly soon, as I haven't seen a full walkthrough of how to do it.

FastMail and Amazon WorkMail both look really nice...tempting me to move away from my plan to self host mail again

that's cool!

looking forward for that writeup ;-)

gwndilshan1989

Windows Mail app. And Gmail app on Android.

Alanbrooke

outlook +1

yoursunny

My email client used to be telnet on Windows 98. I learned the essential POP3 and SMTP commands. I tell people to write to me in plain text only, so that I don’t need to decode those equal signs.
Nowadays I have Gmail.

Ark

Microsoft Outlook for me on Computer, on mobile phone Default iOS Mail App.

Not_Oles

@yoursunny said: telnet

Yup! I remember using telnet for email and to connect to the library, which had a WAN connection + lynx browser.

aRNoLD

Pegasus, the flying horse. It is still under dev/maintenance, but I don't use it now.

I bought a Mailbird license. It works great.