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Ask HN: What email client are you using?

3 pointsby edu3 months ago

9 comments

rstuart41333 months ago
Thunderbird on my Debian desktop, BlueMail on Android.<p>Thunderbird gives me the irrites because of it&#x27;s mbox storage format isn&#x27;t robust. That&#x27;s because isn&#x27;t journaled, and POSIX append to file isn&#x27;t reliable. It doubly irritating because their is robust alternative: maildir. Also it&#x27;s google calendar plugin doesn&#x27;t work if someone shares an invite with you. But on the positive side it&#x27;s IMAP so losing local data isn&#x27;t a disaster, and everything else about it is better than the proprietary alternatives.<p>BlueMail&#x27;s nit is it isn&#x27;t open source. Everything else is literally perfect. It&#x27;s more capable the GMail or Outlook for example, which amazes me. I don&#x27;t understand how &#x2F; why they make it available for free, in fact it&#x27;s downright suspicious, given it&#x27;s so good I&#x27;d pay for it if there was a way. Still, I&#x27;d abandon it for an open source alternative if they did basic stuff like support subfolders. FairEmail doesn&#x27;t. k9 was worse when I tried it.
jasonpeacock3 months ago
Fastmail&#x27;s iOS client on mobile, and their browser client on desktop.<p>I de-Google&#x27;d my life and Fastmail is amazing. I use their own clients because I&#x27;m creating new mail filters to sort my incoming email just often enough that I miss not being able to do that when using other clients.
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gostsamo3 months ago
Thunderbird, mainly because it is more accessible even than the web clients and because I don&#x27;t need to remember different key bindings for different email providers.
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dlcarrier3 months ago
Seamonkey on my computers, and K-9 Mail version 5.6 on my phone. (Later versions don&#x27;t have reliable IMAP IDLE notifications.)<p>I&#x27;m sure that&#x27;s a pretty standard workflow.
billybuckwheat3 months ago
The Fastmail app on my phone. Even then, I don&#x27;t use it all that much. On the desktop, I don&#x27;t use a client. I just log into Fastmail.
marssaxman3 months ago
For personal messages, I use Thunderbird locally and Roundcube on the web, connecting to a privately hosted IMAP server.<p>At work, it&#x27;s just mail.google.com.
ColinWright3 months ago
Command line scripts I&#x27;ve written over a period of a few years.<p>Written in bash, python, and AWK.<p>About 2% to 5% of the time I use a webmail client, usually Roundcube.
beretguy3 months ago
Proton, Evolution, iOS Mail.
PaulHoule3 months ago
emClient