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Bah. What's a good alternative native email reader?

by madrona 14y ago

smacktoward 14y ago
Mutt? In seriousness, I'm not sure there is one.
rhizome 14y ago
Native to what?
- ngokevin 14y ago
  I think he meant as a desktop client.
  - rhizome 14y ago
    For what OS?
    - iso8859-1 14y ago
      Any. If the e-mail client is good enough, I'll run the required OS in a VM.
ngokevin 14y ago
Why switch now? It's not like they're deleting it off the Internet.
cooldeal 14y ago
Outlook ?
dredmorbius 14y ago
My own preference is mutt, and I'm deadly serious about that. KMail / Kontact is actually a very nice client / integrated suite (and it will happily play either way). I consider it the best general PIM I've encountered on any platform. Balsa and Thunderbird (GNOME).
- icebraining 14y ago
  I prefer Sup to mutt. Labels instead of folders, indexing for super fast searching, it's awesome.
  - dredmorbius 14y ago
    I've been meaning to try that. Ah ... it's in Debian repos now: sup-mail. From what I recall and read: sup is the ruby-based implementation of mutt. I believe there are also forks of the mainstream mutt which incorporate indexing, tags, and notmuch.
  - iso8859-1 14y ago
    Homepage: http://sup.rubyforge.org/ http://sup.rubyforge.org/ Note: No built-in IMAP (use fetchmail). Uses Xapian for searching. Handles multiple SMTP servers well (unlike TBird)
ghshephard 14y ago
I run Apple's Mail.app and Outlook (for calendaring) side-by side on OS X 10.7 reading from a Gmail IMAP account and an Exchange Account. I prefer Apple's Mail.app - thought I had my doubts for the first few releases of 10.7 when it crashed continuously and got hung up on the Exchange Server with a "constant activity" task. As of 10.7.4 it's (mostly) returned to 10.6.8 stability. It's a viable alternative to Thunderbird/Outlook for mail reading on OS X. Though, honestly, if you are happy with thunderbird, I'm sure it will be many years before you need to consider alternatives.
Arelius 14y ago
Is there a good non-native one that's not tied to a specific provider either?
justauser 14y ago
Clawsmail or it's ancestor, Sylpheed. If you're one for a beautiful and flashy UI then these options are not for you.
Avshalom 14y ago
Opera's built in mail client is excellent. It's unfortunately baked into the browser, so while still pretty light (Opera's what 10-15 Mb) it's got a bit of irrelevent UI laying about in email mode. Still excellent though.
- deleted 14y ago
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leif 14y ago
Used to use alpine, never could make the ui switch to mutt. Now I'm on offlineimap+notmuch+notmuch.el+postfix and I frigging love it.
- osener 14y ago
  My favorite combination is offlineimap+mu+mu4e. Mu is really fast, mu4e is a great reader and its interface is similar to Wanderlust (another great Emacs based mail reader) which is why I prefer it to notmuch.el. http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/ http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/ http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html
leif 14y ago
Used to use alpine, never could make the ui switch to mutt. Now I'm on offlineimap+notmuch+notmuch.el+postfix and I frigging love it.
ta12121 14y ago
pine (alpine)
- ibotty 14y ago
  dead unfortunately. (and some things are very hard to integrated nicely)
mseepgood 14y ago
On Linux: Evolution
- jeltz 14y ago
  Has evolution improved much lately? When I last used it about 2 years ago it was quite buggy.
  - iso8859-1 14y ago
    According to this [1] article, it is the best client after Thunderbird. [1]: http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/best-linux-email-client-5-reviewed-and-rated-1041236/page:2#articleContent http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/best-lin...
    - phaylon 14y ago
      I actually switched from Thunderbird to Evolution because the former couldn't handle some of my larger IMAP mailboxes. It also makes me happy because Calendar works nicely (in my case at least) with Google Calendars.

Bah. What's a good alternative native email reader?

by madrona 14y ago

Bah. What's a good alternative native email reader?

smacktoward 14y ago

Mutt? In seriousness, I'm not sure there is one.

rhizome 14y ago

Native to what?

ngokevin 14y ago
I think he meant as a desktop client.
- rhizome 14y ago
  For what OS?
  - iso8859-1 14y ago
    Any. If the e-mail client is good enough, I'll run the required OS in a VM.

ngokevin 14y ago

Why switch now? It's not like they're deleting it off the Internet.

cooldeal 14y ago

Outlook ?

dredmorbius 14y ago

My own preference is mutt, and I'm deadly serious about that. KMail / Kontact is actually a very nice client / integrated suite (and it will happily play either way). I consider it the best general PIM I've encountered on any platform. Balsa and Thunderbird (GNOME).

icebraining 14y ago
I prefer Sup to mutt. Labels instead of folders, indexing for super fast searching, it's awesome.
- dredmorbius 14y ago
  I've been meaning to try that. Ah ... it's in Debian repos now: sup-mail. From what I recall and read: sup is the ruby-based implementation of mutt. I believe there are also forks of the mainstream mutt which incorporate indexing, tags, and notmuch.
- iso8859-1 14y ago
  Homepage: http://sup.rubyforge.org/ http://sup.rubyforge.org/ Note: No built-in IMAP (use fetchmail). Uses Xapian for searching. Handles multiple SMTP servers well (unlike TBird)

ghshephard 14y ago

I run Apple's Mail.app and Outlook (for calendaring) side-by side on OS X 10.7 reading from a Gmail IMAP account and an Exchange Account. I prefer Apple's Mail.app - thought I had my doubts for the first few releases of 10.7 when it crashed continuously and got hung up on the Exchange Server with a "constant activity" task. As of 10.7.4 it's (mostly) returned to 10.6.8 stability. It's a viable alternative to Thunderbird/Outlook for mail reading on OS X. Though, honestly, if you are happy with thunderbird, I'm sure it will be many years before you need to consider alternatives.

Arelius 14y ago

Is there a good non-native one that's not tied to a specific provider either?

justauser 14y ago

Clawsmail or it's ancestor, Sylpheed. If you're one for a beautiful and flashy UI then these options are not for you.

Avshalom 14y ago

Opera's built in mail client is excellent. It's unfortunately baked into the browser, so while still pretty light (Opera's what 10-15 Mb) it's got a bit of irrelevent UI laying about in email mode. Still excellent though.

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leif 14y ago

Used to use alpine, never could make the ui switch to mutt. Now I'm on offlineimap+notmuch+notmuch.el+postfix and I frigging love it.

osener 14y ago
My favorite combination is offlineimap+mu+mu4e. Mu is really fast, mu4e is a great reader and its interface is similar to Wanderlust (another great Emacs based mail reader) which is why I prefer it to notmuch.el. http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/ http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/ http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html

leif 14y ago

Used to use alpine, never could make the ui switch to mutt. Now I'm on offlineimap+notmuch+notmuch.el+postfix and I frigging love it.

ta12121 14y ago

pine (alpine)

ibotty 14y ago
dead unfortunately. (and some things are very hard to integrated nicely)

mseepgood 14y ago

On Linux: Evolution

jeltz 14y ago
Has evolution improved much lately? When I last used it about 2 years ago it was quite buggy.
- iso8859-1 14y ago
  According to this [1] article, it is the best client after Thunderbird. [1]: http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/best-linux-email-client-5-reviewed-and-rated-1041236/page:2#articleContent http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/best-lin...
  - phaylon 14y ago
    I actually switched from Thunderbird to Evolution because the former couldn't handle some of my larger IMAP mailboxes. It also makes me happy because Calendar works nicely (in my case at least) with Google Calendars.