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What email client are you guys using?

I just can’t find a decent email client that looks like it’s from the last 20 years. Geary and Evolution both appear to be pretty modern but something about using Gmail with a Yubikey just doesn’t work and neither of them will connect to my account. Both on Fedora and OpenSUSE. Thunderbird works but it’s so old fashioned and Betterbird doesn’t look much better. What’s everyone else using?

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  • Why is Thunderbird old? It recently had a major redo and was rebranded with the supernova branding. Try the flatpak version.

  • I use Thunderbird and I don't think it looks old, specially after recent updates. You can also change the colors which is pretty cool.

  • Old school here, I use mutt. :P on android I use FairEmail and really like it.

    • FairEmail is great! One of the best email clients I've ever used.

      It started struggling a bit with a large mailbox though, so I switched to K9 Mail (which I've heard will eventually become Thunderbird for Android)

  • I just use Protonmail's web client. Fast, sleek, similar polish to gmail imo.

    For an actual desktop client, Thunderbird with Dark Reader addon and some tweaks for theming.

    Honestly though, I just prefer the web client from Proton, it's really nice.

  • Honestly there isn't a good one, Thunderbird is as close as it gets but it's buggy with things like CardDAV and it's slow.

  • mutt, because it looks like it's from the last 20 years. Of the 20th century.

  • Thunderbird. Being on Plasma, I would use Kontact / KMail but it randomly refuses to send emails for me.

  • Thunderbird on Fedora Kinoite and GrapheneOS ;) even though the Android version is still named K-9, based on Android Mail and waaaay smaller.

  • Def proton mail. I was using spark for my other accounts and it was pretty good. Then i got a new phone and never downloaded it agIn and i use the stock ios app.

  • K-9 on Android and Evolution on Ubuntu (Thunderbird is installed, too).

  • Thunderbird and K-9 (which will soon be Thunderbird mobile). I'm not a Thunderbird Stan or anything, but I was running into issues with Claws, Seamonkey, and Fairmail

  • I'm using Thunderbird.

    On my work computers, I don't want the email to be stored locally since they back up the entire system to the cloud for retention and compliance purposes, so I'm using Roundcube (webmail app) hosted on the email server itself. I self-host my email server.

  • If anyone knows a client that can snooze mail on Proton and Gmail, I’d love to know about it. Until then I’m stuck using the web interfaces and their official phone apps.

    • I'm curious, how does snoozing help? First I've heard of the concept so I'm wondering if I'm missing out.

      I found this addon for Thunderbird. Not sure if it's the kind of thing that will help.

      • My goal every day is to end the (work)day with an empty inbox. I reply to or act on messages that I can, and I snooze messages I can’t yet handle to a later date when I expect to be able to.

        An empty inbox then means I’ve handled everything I could and will be reminded of everything I couldn’t yet.

        I think the issue with mailmindr is that it works completely independently from the web and phone app snooze functions. Messages “snoozed” with mailmindr would not be resurfaced when not using Thunderbird which sadly makes it a no go for me. I don’t think there is really a solution to that at this time.

  • I guess the question is, why do you need a client? I find most web interfaces to be sufficient, you can enable browser notifications, create an "app" so that it's in a stand-alone window, etc.

    As another comment said, I just use the Proton web interface.

  • Don't know if this has been said but you are not supposed to use the yubikey on your mail client. Google recommends you use an application password for email clients. As someone who has 5 yubikeys for different services I know this sounds unsafe but is the only way I've been able to use some of the mail programs with Google. The other option would be to enable another 2fa (maybe auth codes with Yubico Authenticator) and use that on the mail programs.

    For Google I ended up using web client and fido2 (and another yubikey as backup and another as auth code generator) and my work requires Outlook but they also ask me to change passwords each month and input them on different platforms that don't support f2 and that breaks a few things for me so I opted for Yubico Auth and use my yubikey instead of Microsoft Authenticator or Google Authenticator.

  • I use super boring Claws Mail for my personal email. I handle my contacts with Khard and calendars with Khal.

    I don't use a Yubikey though.

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