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Re: Ask HN: What email client do you prefer?

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Post by p2hari »

sdfhdfger wrote: post #6

My favorite email client is gmail's webmail. In terms of UX it's horrible, but importantly I don't want my email stored in my computer. I trust google to be safer than my computer. Am I alone on this?

Same here, tried Apple, Thunderbird, Mutt and Canary. I come back to Gmail's webmail. I do not want emai lto be stored on my computer. With firefox containers , I can have dedicated containers for different emails. With Karabiner and Hammerspoon it is easy to have good keyboard navigation. Gmail webmail itself has very good keybindings to get most of the work done. So you are not alone :). If not for webmail, maybe Canary mail is a good alternative.

Re: Ask HN: What email client do you prefer?

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Post by CyMonk »

rexreed wrote: post #22
Nicksil wrote: post #2

Thunderbird https://www.thunderbird.net

Been a solid Thunderbird user for well on 15 yrs. Should I cringe that I'm a POP user? I know IMAP is the way, but I cherish my offline email archives and I don't want my email taking up space on the host I use. Am I doing it wrong?

beginning of this year i made tabula rasa and set up my personal server up from scratch. i use postfix and dovecot for mail and made a conscious decision against imap in favour of pop3. i know it doesn't matter a lot in the end but i like to try minimize network traffic and resource consumption server side.

Re: Ask HN: What email client do you prefer?

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Post by c0wb0yc0d3r »

FairEmail[0] for Android

My favorite feature is that the app tries to remove tracking pixels. The ability to override the user in the from address is super nice too.

You can download the releases right from GitHub, too.

On top of all of that, the dev (Marcel) goes above and beyond to help solve issues you run into. Even if you haven't bought a license!

[0]: https://email.faircode.eu/

Re: Ask HN: What email client do you prefer?

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Post by clircle »

riedel wrote: post #39
Nicksil wrote: post #2

Thunderbird https://www.thunderbird.net

It is usable for me only with expression search NG ( https://github.com/opto/expression-search-NG ). TB is my daily driver but with every update I fear that they will destroy sth again: expression search failed to work for over a year due to their breaking changes. Switched to another extension until that one stopped working. Now back on expression search as opto has ported it.

Oh my god, I have wanted this kind of search in TB for so long.

Re: Ask HN: What email client do you prefer?

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Post by cassianoleal »

0daystock wrote: post #44

Sort of tangential to this discussion: is anyone aware of an email client which will save copies of messages locally and let me view them after I delete them from the server? I'm trying to implement limited message retention, but if I delete it from the server, IMAP clients delete the local copy also.

Is using POP3 intead of IMAP not an option?
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