Re: Good email clients?

On 11 Apr 2024 07:55:03 +1000
not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:

Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-04-10 16:30, candycanearter07 wrote: 

I was wondering if anyone would reccomend a good email client. I'm
mostly just looking for one that has notification support, but the ones
I have looked at have had problems. 

 
Thunderbird is probably the most complete one, followed by Evolution and
Kmail. 

 
Yikes, I found both Thunderbird and Evolution excruciatingly
bloated and over-complicated, so I'd better stay well away from
"Kmail". Those do both attempt accurate HTML rendering though,
unlike clients I prefer such as Sylpheed and Alpine that roughly
(but often very servicably) render HTML as plain text. That
contributes a fair bit to their complexity, but hardly excuses how
unfriendly they can be to configure, or to fix when they break.

I used Thunderbird for a long time, and it was fine.  I moved to Claws
Mail when Thunderbird stuffed up their PGP support.  I used to use
Enigmail, but Thunderbird incorporated it into their product, and did
it in a way where it would not use your keyring, you had to import
your keys into Thunderbird.  That was the end of that for me.