I still use the web interface for each email provider like gmail, outlook, etc

  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 months ago

    At this point I’m thinking of creating my own client haha.

    I believe MailSpring is really powerful. But some advanced features are behind a pro account. MailSpring itself is open source.

  • nyan@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • redxef@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    I used to use Thunderbird, but their PGP integration always crashed the whole program. I now use Evolution.

    • Karna@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      PGP integration? Thunderbird has in-built support for PGP, isn’t it?

      BTW, most of my incoming emails are routed (and encrypted) via addy.io and never faced any issue in opening encrypted (and signed) emails in Thunderbird.

  • Militias@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • Gueoris@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    As a Gnome/GTK enthusiast, I really love Geary. I think it’s the email client that integrates best with the Gnome environment!

    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 months ago

        Same! Geary is really nice, especially if you’re trying to spend less time on the internet. It does one thing, really well: read and write emails.

        Unfortunately I’m not ready to simplify my life like that I guess.

  • rozodru@pie.andmc.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    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.

  • kixik@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • PumpkinDrama@reddthat.comOP
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      2 months ago

      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.

      • kixik@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        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.