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FOSS email clients on Linux? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Kia ora!

I've recently set up asahi linux on my macbook - it's been probably 10 years since I last seriously spent time using linux, so I'm real out of the loop! I've been playing with hyprland and really enjoy it - its approach to window management and productivity is feeling really instinctual, which I love.

With that in mind, I'm on the hunt for email clients on linux - I'm open to trying a good few, because email is my bugbear and I'm invested in finding something that really works. Something that makes it easy to process them would be great - and if it's customisable in terms of looks, even better!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used Thunderbird for a year but I don't recommend it. Don't get me wrong, it's a competent email client, but I've found that the lack of tray notifications is unbelievably annoying. That means you can't really have it running headless in the background checking for emails. Birdtray is kind of a janky solution that I don't recommend either.

Mailspring I've found has most of the features I'd need from a mail client. It also does have a real background process that can check for mail and notify you when you receive some.

The application with the best integration to your (GNOME) desktop is going to be GNOME Geary. It looks like a native GNOME app (because it is) and it fits in perfectly with your system. But it's very light on features. If you only need a client to read and write simple messages, Geary will work wonderfully.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@NateNate60 I would recommend Thunderbird (longtime user), but as you say it lacks integration into the system. Relatively recently wrote my own extremely simple new mails checker extension for Qtile. And the mail client double works as my RSS reader as well, since I discovered that ability.