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data1701d , (edited )
@data1701d@startrek.website avatar

Thunderbird’s not bad, but I usually use web stuff.

I have an existing iCloud e-mail that I haven’t had the time to switch off of. I then use G-Mail for school stuff - since I’ve signed away my soul to Google anyway, might as well use what they have to offer.

Maybe one day, I’ll start my own personal e-mail utopia, nut that day is not today.

dinckelman ,

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

Evilschnuff ,

I had the same experience.

arran4 ,

Agreed

shirro ,

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.

possiblylinux127 ,

Thunderbird

foreverunsure ,

The web browser.

k4j8 ,

I use Mailspring. The only thing missing from Mailspring for me is seeing what folders my emails are in when I run a search. Otherwise, it’s the only non-CLI client I’ve found that let’s me use the keyboard to select multiple emails and move them to a folder, something I do in Gmail.

If anyone knows of others, let me know! I’ve tried Claws, Evolution, Geary, KMail, and Thunderbird in addition to Mutt and aerc in hopes of finding something to replace Gmail.

mesamunefire ,

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…

lol ,
@lol@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Whats the best email service?

Really depends on how you define “best”, but maybe Fastmail if your priority is features and usability or Protonmail if you value privacy a lot.

I would love to selfhost, but my internet service provider blocks port 25…

Selfhosting email is generally not worth it in my opinion and doing it from a residential connection is pretty much doomed to fail right from the start.

mesamunefire ,

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

Just seeing what my options are. Thanks!

savvywolf ,
@savvywolf@pawb.social avatar

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 ,

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.

C126 OP ,

Great question. Gmail is still OK, but if love to degoogle more.

mesamunefire , (edited )

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

baronvonj ,
@baronvonj@lemmy.world avatar

I have everything aggregated into Gmail, so I just use web and the mobile app. I’m looking at Proton but it doesn’t have the “send as” feature for external SMTP services the Gmail does.

f__ ,

This is exactly what I’ve been trying to move away from :/

baronvonj ,
@baronvonj@lemmy.world avatar

I’m honestly a bit surprised that Proton doesn’t seem to have the send as feature. I was able to find at least 15 posts across their uservoice.com site and their Reddit forum, spanning at least 6 years, with one of the uservoice posts having over 300 votes. I just gathered up all the links and sent it into Proton Mail support. Hopefully having all that thrown at them in one big bundle will prompt their project managers to consider it.

variants ,

What do you mean? I use a custom domain in proton so that my server sends emails from info@mydomain instead of my proton email. I have about 10 addresses with three different domains in the essentials plan and I can send emails from different containers as different emails

baronvonj ,
@baronvonj@lemmy.world avatar

That’s only for a personal domain that you own and can set the DNS records for. But if you wanted to forward your gmail (or yahoo, or outlook, or whatever other provider that offers a public SMTP server) addresses to your proton mailbox, and be able send emails as those gmail addresses from within your proton mailbox, that’s not supported. See here for what the feature looks like in GMail.

variants ,

Ooooh gotcha yeah I remember doing that in the past with gmail

fuzzy_feeling ,

kmail…
it integrates well with, you know…
kde…

displaced_city_mouse ,

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 ,

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.

cerement ,
@cerement@slrpnk.net avatar

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 …

poldy ,

Gnus in Emacs, configured to use autocrypt.

ouch ,

How is autocrypt supported nowadays?

apoisel ,
@apoisel@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Mutt.

perishthethought ,

Tuta (used to be called Tutanota), web and Android clients).

Because F++k Google.

kbal ,
@kbal@fedia.io avatar

Sylpheed is the best. I thought everyone knew this.

ouch ,

That’s a name I haven’t seen in a while.

kyub , (edited )
  • GUI: Thunderbird
  • TUI: neomutt
  • Android: K-9 (soon to be Thunderbird)
Engywuck ,

Fairemail

jjlinux ,
@jjlinux@lemmy.ml avatar

I only use K9 on Android. Everything else, web-based.

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