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Geary had promise as a sort of FOSS Mail.app counterpart but last I knew development on it had stalled. In theory Thunderbird could fill that need but it’s alwa

• sandreas 4y ago
  The best FOSS mail apps I came across, are 1.) Evolution (Gnome / Linux) Although it may not be the shiniest star, it has a huge feature set and works pretty good for me. 2.) Mailspring It is a pretty good Mail.app Alternative, but I did not like the restrictions and the user interface was pretty unpolished, although pretty Mail.app-like The most annoying part on all Mail apps I tested was the search. It was mostly unusable, if you have ever used macOS Mail. The search is so much ahead of every other mail app I tested (and I tested a ton) that I don't know if it is just hard to build it or no one ever tried to rebuild the Mail.app search. The only app that was pretty close was mutt/neomutt, but although I like terminal interfaces, in Mail I often use Mime features like bullet lists, tables, Image previews and other stuff that is hard to do in Terminal UIs.
  • alwillis 4y ago
    If like the search features of Mail.app, MailMate is even better: https://freron.com/ https://freron.com/
    • sandreas 4y ago
      never heard of it, but I think being satisfied with macOS Mail does not need an alternative for macOS, but for Linux ;) But I'll take a look.
• squarefoot 4y ago
  I'm fully satisfied by Claws Mail, however thread oriented message grouping like Geary would be a nice improvement, along with a sleeker UI. I would not however give up too much performance for it; Claws Mail speed to me is one of its major selling points.
• sfuller808 4y ago