Ask HN: What email client do you use? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by wooby » Wed, Aug 12, 2009, 5:28 AM UTC

trefn wrote: post #31

sidmitra wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use IMAP on gmail with opera. I need a desktop client, for times when i'm not connected and quickly need to search an old email for some small little detail. I just use it as an offline backup, and keep it synced.

Google has an offline gmail version in beta. Requires Google Gears (not available for FF3.5, last I checked) but works for Safari. All my mail is synced locally but I can still use the Gmail interface.

Me too - using Gmail + Gears w/ Safari 4 Fluid app, and a dock badge 'inbox count' userscript. Google will tell you you can't install gears with safari 4 - but it works.

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

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Post by waseem » Wed, Aug 12, 2009, 7:32 AM UTC

I use Inbox2 (www.inbox2.com), but then again I am building that myself :-)

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

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Post by neuromanta » Wed, Aug 12, 2009, 8:02 AM UTC

You can solve the problem using only one gmail account. Just forward mails from the other accounts, and configure a filter to put different tags on them. You can send from different email addresses using only one gmail account, too.

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

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Post by jacquesm » Wed, Aug 12, 2009, 8:20 AM UTC

Behind my main machine thunderbird, outside Horde.

Interface 'dynamic' is quite amazing.

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

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Post by budman » Wed, Aug 12, 2009, 8:21 AM UTC

TheBat for 10 years now.

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

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Post by nickyp » Wed, Aug 12, 2009, 10:09 AM UTC

jseliger wrote: post #2

Apple's Mail.app, which is Good Enough. I have five accounts, all of them are checked with a single click, and I don't have to worry beyond that.

Not to mention drag-and-drop support, which is why I don't use a webmail client as my main vehicle for email (which allows some nice workflow together with Exposé)

I'm also used to the excellent inline PDF viewing, quicklook for attached foto's and documents and the data detectors for addresses and phone numbers.

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

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Post by sankara » Wed, Aug 12, 2009, 11:01 AM UTC

Outlook on my windows laptop. Thunderbird on my linux desktoip. Managing multiple emails with these clients have never been a problem. My personal gmail account alone is web only.

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

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Post by jamie_ca » Wed, Aug 12, 2009, 12:54 PM UTC

antidaily wrote: post #55

modoc wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And it syncs all the accounts over to my iPhone:)

I just wish there was an Inbox that combined all incoming mail from my 4 accounts.

I don't know what you're missing, but I've got one Inbox folder with four accounts underneath it (3 imap, 1 pop) - the root Inbox contains all messages in the sub-inboxes.

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

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Post by modoc » Wed, Aug 12, 2009, 2:13 PM UTC

jamie_ca wrote: post #68

antidaily wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just wish there was an Inbox that combined all incoming mail from my 4 accounts.

I don't know what you're missing, but I've got one Inbox folder with four accounts underneath it (3 imap, 1 pop) - the root Inbox contains all messages in the sub-inboxes.

Not on your iPhone you don't. Unless you've found something really cool:)

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

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Post by Derrek » Wed, Aug 12, 2009, 3:26 PM UTC

jasonlbaptiste wrote: post #3

straight up google apps gmail with gmail notifier. As far as multiple accounts: 1) set other accounts up to forward to your gmail/gapps email 2) setup a filter + auto label system for those emails 3) add it as an outgoing email that you can reply from (limited to 7 i THINK)

This is the setup I use too, but the main downside of it is that sending a message from within Gmail, as an account other than the main account you're logged in as, reveals your main account email address.

For example, if you're logged in as somebody@gmail.com, but send the message as evilperson@gmail.com, you'll reveal somebody@gmail.com to the recipient. In fact, Outlook proudly displays this address by stating "From: evilperson@gmail.com on behalf of somebody@gmail.com". I think you can also easily get this info from the mail headers from most web-based clients.

Maybe this isn't an issue for most folks, but it can create havoc with your filters if folks start replying to an address you had hoped to keep hidden from them.