Mainly a question for developers, what kind of email client do you use/prefer? I myself mainly use Gmail/Spark but wondering if there's any good alternatives out there?
Ask HN: What email client do you prefer?
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#2Thunderbird
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#3https://www.emclient.com/
is like an Outlook that works.
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#4[dead]
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#5Protonmail in the last two months have really stepped up in fixing bugs, completing half baked features and polishing the UI(especially on the phone).
Now is the best time to try protonmail.
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#6My 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?
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#7My 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?
Fastmail is recommended so often on HN it's starting to feel like a bit of a meme, but if you want a solid, reliable cloud email provider with a better and faster UI than Gmail, check it out.
If it's helpful, I wrote a small guide on switching off of Gmail here: https://www.justus.ws/tech/how-to-ditch-gmail/
Edit: And as an aside, my guess would be that very few people are storing their email solely on their computer. Even people running their own mail servers are likely storing the mail on the server and syncing it to their clients with IMAP.
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#8mutt, mainly because it's terminal-based and it's battle-tested. And it's not Pine.
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#9Gmail/iCloud through Apple Mail (https://manuelmoreale.com/emails)
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#10After trying everything and always going back to the native Gmail experience I recently switched to https://mimestream.com/ and have been loving it.