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Ask HN: What email client are you using?

3 points by edu 2y ago

ColinWright 2y ago
Command line scripts I've written over a period of a few years. Written in bash, python, and AWK. About 2% to 5% of the time I use a webmail client, usually Roundcube.
jasonpeacock 2y ago
Fastmail's iOS client on mobile, and their browser client on desktop. I de-Google'd my life and Fastmail is amazing. I use their own clients because I'm creating new mail filters to sort my incoming email just often enough that I miss not being able to do that when using other clients.
- toomuchtodo 2y ago
  +1 this entire comment, FastMail and as little Google as possible.
PaulHoule 2y ago
emClient
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gostsamo 2y ago
Thunderbird, mainly because it is more accessible even than the web clients and because I don't need to remember different key bindings for different email providers.
- dlcarrier 2y ago
  It's not the latest type of pretty, though. It's very important that every few years you throw out all usability/accessibility to replace the user interface with one that is the latest kind of pretty, then if you feel like it, slowly add back usability/accessibility features until the cycle repeats.
  - gostsamo 2y ago
    mmm, the classic theme is available for whoever wants it, but I'm blind and my usual hot keys work as before. I'd like better search and better calendar, but the rest is pretty fine. The new gmail ui sucks and roundqube sucks even more, so tb it is.
marssaxman 2y ago
For personal messages, I use Thunderbird locally and Roundcube on the web, connecting to a privately hosted IMAP server. At work, it's just mail.google.com.
dlcarrier 2y ago
Seamonkey on my computers, and K-9 Mail version 5.6 on my phone. (Later versions don't have reliable IMAP IDLE notifications.) I'm sure that's a pretty standard workflow.
billybuckwheat 2y ago
The Fastmail app on my phone. Even then, I don't use it all that much. On the desktop, I don't use a client. I just log into Fastmail.
beretguy 2y ago
Proton, Evolution, iOS Mail.
rstuart4133 2y ago
Thunderbird on my Debian desktop, BlueMail on Android. Thunderbird gives me the irrites because of it's mbox storage format isn't robust. That's because isn't journaled, and POSIX append to file isn't reliable. It doubly irritating because their is robust alternative: maildir. Also it's google calendar plugin doesn't work if someone shares an invite with you. But on the positive side it's IMAP so losing local data isn't a disaster, and everything else about it is better than the proprietary alternatives. BlueMail's nit is it isn't open source. Everything else is literally perfect. It's more capable the GMail or Outlook for example, which amazes me. I don't understand how / why they make it available for free, in fact it's downright suspicious, given it's so good I'd pay for it if there was a way. Still, I'd abandon it for an open source alternative if they did basic stuff like support subfolders. FairEmail doesn't. k9 was worse when I tried it.

3 points by edu 2y ago

Command line scripts I've written over a period of a few years. Written in bash, python, and AWK. About 2% to 5% of the time I use a webmail client, usually Roundcube.

jasonpeacock 2y ago

Fastmail's iOS client on mobile, and their browser client on desktop. I de-Google'd my life and Fastmail is amazing. I use their own clients because I'm creating new mail filters to sort my incoming email just often enough that I miss not being able to do that when using other clients.

toomuchtodo 2y ago
+1 this entire comment, FastMail and as little Google as possible.

PaulHoule 2y ago

emClient

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gostsamo 2y ago

Thunderbird, mainly because it is more accessible even than the web clients and because I don't need to remember different key bindings for different email providers.

dlcarrier 2y ago
It's not the latest type of pretty, though. It's very important that every few years you throw out all usability/accessibility to replace the user interface with one that is the latest kind of pretty, then if you feel like it, slowly add back usability/accessibility features until the cycle repeats.
- gostsamo 2y ago
  mmm, the classic theme is available for whoever wants it, but I'm blind and my usual hot keys work as before. I'd like better search and better calendar, but the rest is pretty fine. The new gmail ui sucks and roundqube sucks even more, so tb it is.

marssaxman 2y ago

For personal messages, I use Thunderbird locally and Roundcube on the web, connecting to a privately hosted IMAP server. At work, it's just mail.google.com.

dlcarrier 2y ago

Seamonkey on my computers, and K-9 Mail version 5.6 on my phone. (Later versions don't have reliable IMAP IDLE notifications.) I'm sure that's a pretty standard workflow.

billybuckwheat 2y ago

The Fastmail app on my phone. Even then, I don't use it all that much. On the desktop, I don't use a client. I just log into Fastmail.

beretguy 2y ago

Proton, Evolution, iOS Mail.

rstuart4133 2y ago

Thunderbird on my Debian desktop, BlueMail on Android. Thunderbird gives me the irrites because of it's mbox storage format isn't robust. That's because isn't journaled, and POSIX append to file isn't reliable. It doubly irritating because their is robust alternative: maildir. Also it's google calendar plugin doesn't work if someone shares an invite with you. But on the positive side it's IMAP so losing local data isn't a disaster, and everything else about it is better than the proprietary alternatives. BlueMail's nit is it isn't open source. Everything else is literally perfect. It's more capable the GMail or Outlook for example, which amazes me. I don't understand how / why they make it available for free, in fact it's downright suspicious, given it's so good I'd pay for it if there was a way. Still, I'd abandon it for an open source alternative if they did basic stuff like support subfolders. FairEmail doesn't. k9 was worse when I tried it.