Does any integrate with Microsoft Exchange and their encryption of emails? It has made my use of Thunderbird less and less an option because of this.
Ask HN: Best email client for a Mac?
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#22What’s wrong with the built-in Mail app btw? I use it in daily basis and it’s pretty good to get its job done.
I might be a "Gmail is weird" issue but I've always had trouble going through my inbox and deleting a lot of email one by one. They disappear, then they come back and then disappear again. Hitting undo after deleting something by mistake is also a recipe for disaster for email that kind of disappears but still shows up in search.
It can also be pretty laggy (e.g. selecting multiple messages), but this has gotten a lot better in High Sierra.
I still use it though since I have yet to find an alternative that I prefer (I've only tried a few though)
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#23What’s wrong with the built-in Mail app btw? I use it in daily basis and it’s pretty good to get its job done.
Not something that is wrong per se, but I moved away from the Mail.app because I switched to Inbox a few years ago because of it's productivity features. The way Inbox handled 'snoozing' mails (mails returing from snooze would appear at the top of the inbox) is not supported by Mail.app (or any other standard mail app for that matter, even Gmail at the time). So I switched to Inbox web app on the desktop as well.
I believe there are some plugins that support similar features, but I have not yet found a Mail.app snoozing that is portable as well (eg: Android/webapp support).
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#24mutt in your terminal of choice, to a local Maildir structure synced from your IMAP server, plus your search utility of choice.
are you using mutt's built-in imap functionality, or something like offlineimap?
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#25What’s wrong with the built-in Mail app btw? I use it in daily basis and it’s pretty good to get its job done.
It gets quite slow with large mailboxes.
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#26If you're looking for a more traditional email client, I'd recommend MailMate[1]. It's a no-fuss email client designed for power user (GPG support, Markdown support, advanced filtering, text-only mode, etc.) I've been using it for half a year with Fastmail (personal) and Gmail (work) and pretty happy with it.
The author also maintains a blog[2] where he post quirks about several IMAP implementations. For example, Yahoo IMAP[3] or Gmail labels[4]. The app itself also handled all these edge cases very well.
[1]: https://freron.com
[3]: https://blog.freron.com/2017/slow-descent-into-madness-yahoo...
[4]: https://blog.freron.com/2013/mavericks-gmail-apple-mail-and-...
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#27I'm partial to Airmail ( http://airmailapp.com/ ), which I use for a mix of Gmail and self-hosted (IMAP) addresses. Works great, lightning-fast to use, and with a very Mac-native feel.
Does that store mail on their servers at all? It's becoming increasingly confusing as to which of these new mail clients require a 3rd party server for them to do their "magic" on.
I don't believe Airmail requires any 3rd party server. I have been using Airmail for a few years now and really like it.
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#28What’s wrong with the built-in Mail app btw? I use it in daily basis and it’s pretty good to get its job done.
And it’s freaking fast. After trying out other mail clients, Mail app is the fastest in term of new mail sync speed.
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#29You can pry Eudora from my cold dead hands…
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#30Spark does pretty well for me. Nice inbox features and search functions.
Another Spark user here. Works great. I'm also using the iOS version.