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Ask HN: What email client do you use?
Wondering what email client people use?
I have 3 or 4 different gmail accounts and it's a pain keeping up with all of them. I have an email address for support, one for feedback and a personal one.
- jseliger 17y agoApple's Mail.app, which is Good Enough. I have five accounts, all of them are checked with a single click, and I don't have to worry beyond that.
- modoc 17y agoAnd it syncs all the accounts over to my iPhone:)
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- antidaily 17y agoI just wish there was an Inbox that combined all incoming mail from my 4 accounts.
- nickyp 17y agoNot to mention drag-and-drop support, which is why I don't use a webmail client as my main vehicle for email (which allows some nice workflow together with Exposé) I'm also used to the excellent inline PDF viewing, quicklook for attached foto's and documents and the data detectors for addresses and phone numbers.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y agostraight up google apps gmail with gmail notifier. As far as multiple accounts: 1) set other accounts up to forward to your gmail/gapps email 2) setup a filter + auto label system for those emails 3) add it as an outgoing email that you can reply from (limited to 7 i THINK)
- mrshoe 17y agoThose are all good suggestions, and I would add: 4) Use Mailplane (http://mailplaneapp.com/ http://mailplaneapp.com/). Disclaimer: Mailplane is not free and I'm not affiliated with it at all.
- tdm911 17y agoI use the Google Apps/Gmail interface also. I've found that as it has matured over time there are less reasons I would want a desktop client and more reasons for having the portability of a cross platform, location independent web interface. Gmail is a class act when it comes to web apps.
- sidmitra 17y agoI use IMAP on gmail with opera. I need a desktop client, for times when i'm not connected and quickly need to search an old email for some small little detail. I just use it as an offline backup, and keep it synced.
- sound2man 17y agoOutlook for my exchange based email (at work), Thunderbird for IMAP (at home).
- thorax 17y agoThunderbird latest beta. I also use the iPhone email client just about as much as Thunderbird.
- dawie 17y agoI also use my iPhone's client, but mostly for reading emails.
- californiaguy 17y agoMail.app in the office, mutt if I'm terminal bound.
- deutronium 17y agoI use mailnotify to check a few different accounts for new messages (http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/ http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/) then just log on to a webmail site to access the mail.
- warfangle 17y agopine. I kid, I kid. I use google apps all around (work & home).
- trafficlight 17y agoI used Pine for a long time. It was great. I use Thunderbird now.
- moai 17y agoSquirrelMail, Thunderbird
- SwellJoe 17y agoThunderbird, Usermin (our webmail client), GMail, and the Android mail application, in that order. All of my @virtualmin.com mail comes to one mailbox via aliases, and I can access that box from home on Thunderbird, the web with Usermin, and my phone with the G1. GMail is for personal stuff, and for chat. Our support is handled through a ticket tracker, which makes things dramatically easier to manage.
- zackham 17y agoMail.app with MailActOn (http://www.indev.ca/MailActOn.html http://www.indev.ca/MailActOn.html) which I am not affiliated with and is not free. Use it for 7 email accounts, lots of RSS, all filtered carefully into one combined inbox and organized manually but quickly into local folders with that MailActOn app. In my experience heavy use of Mail.app results in accounts that do not get checked for email, and show no connection error or indication of a problem. No email for an hour and I restart the app. I wish refreshing my accounts actually displayed the status of checking each account, it is very obvious sometimes that the refresh button does basically nothing or at least doesn't inform me in any way what it is doing...
- smutt 17y agoI second that complaint about Mail.app. It's a great client and I use it for my main job email account. But the refresh button is essentially useless. More than once our mail server has been down at work and I don't notice until I try and send something.
- naish 17y agoTurn on the Activity Viewer: Window->Activity Viewer or ⌘-0. Shows each account being accessed and all related activity. Also allows actions to be cancelled.
- bgnm2000 17y agoI can't believe I'm going to say this don't laugh, but I use outlook, and .........AOL. I've had the AOL account for years and I've never cared enough to switch it over (it handles all of my spam like e-mails anyway). I've never really cared about my e-mail client in general. If I were motivated to switch - which is the most intuitive for organization?
- Titanous 17y agoGmail in a Fluid app, and Mail.app on iPod Touch.
- vulpes 17y agoSurprised there isn't any votes for Postbox app (http://getpostbox.com http://getpostbox.com). * It integrates well with gmail * does great with multiple accounts * multiple outgoing addresses * great search functionality * GTD tools such as assigning emails a topic. * Integration with facebook/twitter to pull up contact info * Extensions such as calendar and contacts Based on thunderbird, all around awesome client.
- HalcyonMuse 17y agoI, too, was surprised there weren't more. I use this; I like it quite a lot. The search feels quite superior to Thunderbird's native search.
- eapen 17y agopostbox is not free :(
- staunch 17y agoNo Linux version :(
- ErrantX 17y agoGmail: all my accounts syndicate to there and I use multiple inboxes lab feature to sort it all.
- matttah 17y agoKmail
- sidmitra 17y agoOpera. Mainly because it's open almost the entire day on my laptop.
- TweedHeads 17y agoGmail forwarding all my accounts to my main account.
- ryanwaggoner 17y agoMail.app with Gmail / Google Apps, so I have backup in the cloud, access anywhere, and IMAP syncing with iPhone. Works great.
- deimos 17y agoGMail on Mozilla Prism then Mail.app for everything else - I don't have a clue how Thunderbird performs on the Mac, but Mail.app works fine atm. Lastly, Thunderbird on Windows
- rythie 17y agothunderbird for work, home and projects on the desktop. ipod mail.app and nokia n96 mailer the most rest of the time. If all those unavailable, squirrelmail.
- bkudria 17y agoGoogle Apps GMail, mail app on the iPhone (and occasionally web app). Mail sucks, GMail makes it ok.
- mjgoins 17y agofetchmail -> procmail -> mutt -> vim -> gpg -> ssmtp
- revertts 17y agoThis is similar to what I use, except offlineimap instead of fetchmail and esmtp instead of ssmtp. I like offlineimap because it does a bidirectionaly sync, meaning I can keep a local backup of mail, but still use the web client when I need to (without a ton of old mail sitting around). I started using esmpt because it handles local mail delivery when paired with procmail, allowing me to get the infrequent messages to root without having to run a full MTA on my laptop. There's also a script to allow mail queuing, but I haven't ever bothered with it.
- larryfreeman 17y agogmail for my main account and yahoo!mail for any sign ups, etc. that I don't really care about.
- garnet7 17y agoYou might've made this a poll. From the HN FAQ: > How do I submit a poll? > http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll > This is an experimental feature so there is currently a fairly high karma threshold for submitting new polls.
- jrockway 17y agoGnus. (Local IMAP fed by offlineimap from my real IMAP server.) I use K9 on my phone.
- marcocampos 17y agoGmail and Mutt.
- scottw 17y agofetchmail/procmail/mutt. All of my addresses forward to a single imap account (some via gmail for spam filtering).
- aidenn0 17y agoI too use this. At work I use the same combination, but also Evolution, just because I get too many customer e-mails that are unreadable without an html reader. For personal e-mail, I get few enough of those that a lynx filter is sufficient.
- zacharypinter 17y agoI use Gnus. I've got it setup so all my incoming mail lands in Gmail. Then, Gnus checks that account via POP3. Gnus only checks mail when prompted, so anything that Gnus hasn't fetched yet shows up as unread when viewed on the web or via iPhone/IMAP. Gnus is setup to select the correct SMTP server based on the contents of the message being replied to or the view that initiated compose-mail.
- 321abc 17y agoclaws http://www.claws-mail.org http://www.claws-mail.org
- timf 17y agoMe too. Stable, fast, extensible, keyboard friendly, and tons of features.
- shoesfullofdust 17y agoGyazMail: http://gyazsquare.com/gyazmail/ http://gyazsquare.com/gyazmail/ I've been using this Mac OS X client for quite some time. It's everything I want in a desktop client. It has become rock soid and is slowly but steadily improving and adding features.
- sielskr 17y agoVM, which (like gnus) is built on top of Emacs. I use a very old version (version 5) because I did not like the direction the project took after that. Heavily modified by me.
- zandorg 17y agoThunderbird for Windows over SSL POP3.
- ramy_d 17y agoi switched from thunderbird to evolution and have been very pleased.
- mgrouchy 17y agoOutlook at Work. Gmail and Google Apps gmail for my domain accounts.Also use gmail on my blackberry through the regular blackberry email client.
- tjmc 17y agoOutlook with Xobni at work. I've now become the guy that can find "that email".
- vaporstun 17y agoI have RoundCube [http://roundcube.net/ http://roundcube.net/] installed on my server and all of my other accounts forward to it. I constantly hack it to add functionality where needed.
- GrandMasterBirt 17y agogmail + thunderbird at work. 1 gmail account for all span (even if it looks like it might possibly have a slight chance of being span i use this email). Not forwarded. 1 gmail account (old) forwarded to main gmail account 1 gmail account main 1 work account I use thunderbird at work to view work related emails, but gmail client to do everything else. Can't beat that damn gmail client!
- zitterbewegung 17y agoGmail on my desktop with the gears extension. Sometimes I use my blackberry message client to read emails.
- waseem 17y agoI use Inbox2 (www.inbox2.com), but then again I am building that myself :-)
- neuromanta 17y agoYou can solve the problem using only one gmail account. Just forward mails from the other accounts, and configure a filter to put different tags on them. You can send from different email addresses using only one gmail account, too.
- jacquesm 17y agoBehind my main machine thunderbird, outside Horde. Interface 'dynamic' is quite amazing.
- budman 17y agoTheBat for 10 years now.
- sankara 17y agoOutlook on my windows laptop. Thunderbird on my linux desktoip. Managing multiple emails with these clients have never been a problem. My personal gmail account alone is web only.
- tallpapab 17y agoKMail