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Lots of people griping about Thunderbird! Can someone recommend an e-mail client which does the following: 1. Supports GPG signing and decryption 2. Allows pl

Lots of people griping about Thunderbird! Can someone recommend an e-mail client which does the following: 1. Supports GPG signing and decryption 2. Allows plain text views and composition to be set as default I use ThunderBird for those two specific reasons, and I'd be fine trying something new too.

hiepph 3y ago
Some more features that I like: + Bottom posting can be set as default. + Selected text are automatically quoted when hitting reply. + Many add-ons and utilities are available: DKIM verifier, Mail Hop viewer, Mail Agent viewer, etc. I tried to find an alternative but I couldn't either.
bronikowski 3y ago
This is not everyone-friendly answer, but Mutt does it. To the second point it's not even optional for composing. Unless you write/use some markdown to text/html.
- narag 3y ago
  Thunderbird has a very useful feature: simplified incoming html view. It strips remote images and js, while keeping the minimum to make messages readable. Responses can use plain text. I really liked Mutt. I used it for one or two years, a long time ago.
  - bronikowski 3y ago
    You can pipe text/html to w3m/elinks to get the same results. Well, almost the same, some e-mails are not that well designed. I still love mutt, it's so rapid and it works almost the same when I first used it, over 20 years ago.
rinze 3y ago
mutt does both things. I've been using it for years. The learning curve is certainly steep, and being in the terminal all the time might throw people off, but it does what you're asking for.
narag 3y ago
I've used many, but that's ancient history. For a long time I used webmail and only Thunderbird in recent years. News of an interface revamp were scary, but so far no serious breakage. I guess people's complaints are about very heavy mailboxes or, most likely IMAP. That is a different way of thinking: email as sort of a database of personal information, integrated with calendar and contact manager. If you're like me, only mail and not a lot of it, Thunderbird will be probably fine.
nemoniac 3y ago
I've been happily using Gnus for this and many other things for many years now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnus
raphman 3y ago
On Linux? Evolution does this pretty well. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution
teddyh 3y ago
<https://pep.software/thunderbird/ https://pep.software/thunderbird/>
quincepie 3y ago
Not a GUI, but I am using neomutt which requires a bit of config and time to get used to. Thunderbird kept crashing for me every time i try to sign an email but i have no problems with neomutt.
folmar 3y ago
Alpine works great. Or do you want a GUI?
nerdponx 3y ago
I gave up and mostly use the Fastmail web UI. It's substantially better than Thunderbird and just about every other email client I've tried. But of course this isn't any help if you're not a Fastmail customer.

hiepph 3y ago

Some more features that I like: + Bottom posting can be set as default. + Selected text are automatically quoted when hitting reply. + Many add-ons and utilities are available: DKIM verifier, Mail Hop viewer, Mail Agent viewer, etc. I tried to find an alternative but I couldn't either.

bronikowski 3y ago

This is not everyone-friendly answer, but Mutt does it. To the second point it's not even optional for composing. Unless you write/use some markdown to text/html.

narag 3y ago
Thunderbird has a very useful feature: simplified incoming html view. It strips remote images and js, while keeping the minimum to make messages readable. Responses can use plain text. I really liked Mutt. I used it for one or two years, a long time ago.
- bronikowski 3y ago
  You can pipe text/html to w3m/elinks to get the same results. Well, almost the same, some e-mails are not that well designed. I still love mutt, it's so rapid and it works almost the same when I first used it, over 20 years ago.

rinze 3y ago

mutt does both things. I've been using it for years. The learning curve is certainly steep, and being in the terminal all the time might throw people off, but it does what you're asking for.

narag 3y ago

I've used many, but that's ancient history. For a long time I used webmail and only Thunderbird in recent years. News of an interface revamp were scary, but so far no serious breakage. I guess people's complaints are about very heavy mailboxes or, most likely IMAP. That is a different way of thinking: email as sort of a database of personal information, integrated with calendar and contact manager. If you're like me, only mail and not a lot of it, Thunderbird will be probably fine.

nemoniac 3y ago

I've been happily using Gnus for this and many other things for many years now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnus

raphman 3y ago

On Linux? Evolution does this pretty well. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution

teddyh 3y ago

<https://pep.software/thunderbird/ https://pep.software/thunderbird/>

quincepie 3y ago

Not a GUI, but I am using neomutt which requires a bit of config and time to get used to. Thunderbird kept crashing for me every time i try to sign an email but i have no problems with neomutt.

folmar 3y ago

Alpine works great. Or do you want a GUI?

nerdponx 3y ago

I gave up and mostly use the Fastmail web UI. It's substantially better than Thunderbird and just about every other email client I've tried. But of course this isn't any help if you're not a Fastmail customer.