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Ask HN: What email client do you prefer?
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#42Thunderbird 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?
If it works for you, why would you be doing it wrong?
Re: Ask HN: What email client do you prefer?
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
If it works for you, why would you be doing it wrong?
That my friend is a good question. I get the side-stare for saying I still use POP. I sync my mailboxes between machines and it seems to work for me. Yes, working on multiple machines sharing an inbox at the same time is problematic, but so for me would be the IMAP alternative. As long as POP doesn't go away I'm good.
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#44Sort 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.
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#45I went from pine (which was more than fine) and thunderbird to web uis like gmail, corporate outlook and proton. Never looked back.
I wouldn't use an offline email client unless emails are really essential to the job (kinda had to use proper outlook when I was a consultant).
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#46I use whatever mail client that can save my emails in Maildir directory structure where each email represent a single file.
and it allows me to create many different folders of which rules can relocate toward its designated folder(s).
Works perfectly with IMAP4 protocol.
Minimal chance of corruption and maximum portability to other mail clients.
https://www.interserver.net/tips/kb/difference-between-maild...
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#47Mailmate (https://freron.com/)
Have always been surprised it doesn't get more attention on this forum. It's a paid app, and it shows in the quality. Very smart and dedicated single developer (this is feasible for an email client since the protocol is stable and doesn't change very much), an active mailing list and user community. Clean with few bugs in my use. Definitely aimed at developers and people who want to peer into the internals of email.
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#48I use Evolution on my PC and FairEmail app on my mobile. Both connect via IMAP and support GPG encryption.
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#49No love for Outlook?
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Re: Ask HN: What email client do you prefer?
#50I've only ever worked at places with self hosted Exchange for e-mail and groupware. As a client, I use Outlook Web Access (OWA) most of the time and I think it's fine. It's simple, feels reasonably snappy to me and I like having the same interface on all the different machines I need to login from. Sometimes, I need to reach for the desktop version of Outlook in a Windows VM to access options or features not accessible in OWA (or in the sluggish abomination that is Outlook for Mac). However, in the end I don't care all that much about my e-mail client because I use a simple inbox-zero-ish approach to e-mail and only really need Inbox and Archive folders (as well as a delete function). This works with every client.
To have an offline archive, I also have Apple Mail connected to my Exchange accounts. I never use the app itself but frequently use Spotlight to search for and preview e-mails. However, if I'm already working in OWA, I use the search function in there. In my experience, it works well and doesn't feel significantly slower than searching locally in my offline archive.
[Sidenote: I find it annoying to have to use Spotlight for local e-mail search instead of Alfred.app (which has been my universal search app for many years). Alas, Apple only allows access to the e-mail folder on MacOS for their own apps for some annoying reason these days.]
Outside of work, I have the same setup with Apple Mail and Spotlight for archival and search. As clients, I use K-9 on Android and Apple Mail or runbox7 on the desktop. The latter is the webmail app of Runbox, my e-mail provider of choice (I think the app is pretty good - and open source on https://github.com/runbox/runbox7 ).