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Geary is too buggy/lacks e-mail refresh, KMail is also too buggy although I haven't tried it in a few years, Evolution assumes too many GNOME parts, Mailspring

Geary is too buggy/lacks e-mail refresh, KMail is also too buggy although I haven't tried it in a few years, Evolution assumes too many GNOME parts, Mailspring is electron-based, TUIs are right out, Claws is even more 90s than Thunderbird. So yeah. For handling multiple e-mail accounts, Thunderbird works best.

jraph 4y ago
That's my experience as well. And I would like to use KMail since I use KDE anyway. I haven't tried Mailspring but I don't feel like running another Electron app when Thunderbird does the job amazingly well.
aidenn0 4y ago
> Geary is too buggy/lacks e-mail refresh, KMail is also too buggy although I haven't tried it in a few years Indeed, my reaction to Geary was "wow, they managed to make KMail look good!" > Evolution assumes too many GNOME parts I don't like this about Evolution either; I haven't run a GNOME desktop for at least a decade, and (depending on the distro) it can be a tiny bit fiddly getting Evolution working without a GNOME desktop. It "just works" on recent NixOS versions though. Once it's installed though, it's a joy to use, while Thunderbird feels like a drag. I'm not a UI expert, so I can't put my finger on what the difference is. > Mailspring is electron-based I hadn't heard of mailspring previously, but I suspect we have similar views of what at typical electron-based app is like... > TUIs are right out I have no problem with TUIs, I use a TUI along side a gui mail client, but the latter is necessary when dealing with non text-only messages (particularly responding to). > Claws is even more 90s than Thunderbird Maybe I'm just old, but Claws is way more usable than me than Thunderbird. The only thing it lacks for me is an html e-mail editor, which is necessary for responding and quoting to non text-only e-mails. There are plenty of good TUIs that can handle text-only e-mails, so claws isn't really something I currently have a use for.

jraph 4y ago

That's my experience as well. And I would like to use KMail since I use KDE anyway. I haven't tried Mailspring but I don't feel like running another Electron app when Thunderbird does the job amazingly well.

aidenn0 4y ago

> Geary is too buggy/lacks e-mail refresh, KMail is also too buggy although I haven't tried it in a few years Indeed, my reaction to Geary was "wow, they managed to make KMail look good!" > Evolution assumes too many GNOME parts I don't like this about Evolution either; I haven't run a GNOME desktop for at least a decade, and (depending on the distro) it can be a tiny bit fiddly getting Evolution working without a GNOME desktop. It "just works" on recent NixOS versions though. Once it's installed though, it's a joy to use, while Thunderbird feels like a drag. I'm not a UI expert, so I can't put my finger on what the difference is. > Mailspring is electron-based I hadn't heard of mailspring previously, but I suspect we have similar views of what at typical electron-based app is like... > TUIs are right out I have no problem with TUIs, I use a TUI along side a gui mail client, but the latter is necessary when dealing with non text-only messages (particularly responding to). > Claws is even more 90s than Thunderbird Maybe I'm just old, but Claws is way more usable than me than Thunderbird. The only thing it lacks for me is an html e-mail editor, which is necessary for responding and quoting to non text-only e-mails. There are plenty of good TUIs that can handle text-only e-mails, so claws isn't really something I currently have a use for.