Ask HN: Best Email client for Linux?

the last thunderbird release was two days ago. it's not getting fancy new features but it IS getting bug and security fixes, so if it suits your needs there's no reason to switch.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/52.5.0/releasenote...

When you say "with GMail support" I assume that you mean "Handles IMAP".

As you say Thunderbird seems stalled, but despite that it continues to work. So are there specific annoyances you have with it? Or think you'd like added/changed?

Most of the big (graphical) mail-clients are very similar in terms of featuresets, if you ignore the GUI toolokit and similar distractions.

I personally prefer console mail-reading, for many years I used mutt, but then I started to get annoyed that I couldn't script it terribly well. So I wrote my own mail-client, console-based, modal, and scripted with Lua. It works for me, and even has IMAP support, but I suspect it is not so useful for you:

https://lumail.org/

https://github.com/lumail/lumail/

I use claws-mail. Not exactly fancy but it's fast, stable, and can handle several GB of data in inboxes even in slow machines without a hiccup.

My second option, beacuse of the features it offers, would be Kmail/Kontact.

IMO, Gmail isn’t really IMAP. It’s more like kinda semi sorta MAP.

You can’t ever delete mail from gmail. Only hide it, at best.

Gmail only ever has one folder, into which everything gets thrown.