Hi, I tried using an email client over a year ago, and after trying almost all of them in the span of a week I gave up in frustration. Would anyone have a recommendation ? For an email client :
- That is actively maintained
- That is not controlled by a company that could pull a Mozilla on it (Thunderbird)
- That isn't proprietary
- That doesn't need 77 dependencies and 450 GB (WTF KMail π )
- That is reasonably fast and light and not too bloated (I just want to read emails, I don't need a full app suite...)
- That supports POP
- That supports writing HTML messages (sorry Claws, I really liked you but occasionally I kinda need to write formatted messages to preserve other people's sanity π )
- That supports reading HTML messages without showing the HTML version as attachments so that every single email has the paperclip icon and I can't tell which messages have real attachments (Sylpheed I think ?)
- That supports MailDir format for portability (why isn't it the default everywhere already instead of weird non-portable formats ? π )
- If possible, that doesn't have an interface that's so awful it's a pain to find anything (Thunderbird)
I also tested Geary and another one but I don't remember much about it... I can't find out whether Geary does support POP and maildir, its documentation page is... well it's a list 8 lines long, but on a page called "Documentation" so it's technically counts as documentation I guess ? π https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary/Documentation
Any recommendation would be greatly appreciated !
Claws Mail client. Solid, Lightweight. Doesn't have the polish thunderbird has, but also doens't have a lot of the bloat either.
OP specifically mentioned not wanting claws.
Yes I would really have liked to have kept it but the lack of html formatting is a deal breaker... it's still a very good mail client that doesn't get enough love though
Yes it's an awesome mail client, but alas I do need to write HTML formatted messages occasionally π’
Auugh man I'm sorry for glossing that over. I hate being just another 'thunderbird exists' guy but given the need for HTML? Yea I'm gonna chip in on that bucket.
Hey I'm glad to know there are people who also like Claws π I was really sad to give it up, apart from html it did everything I needed with zero annoyances
Claws also has a neat feature of supporting the super old, and I'm talking ancinet unix days old, mailbox protocol. Which has been useful because one of the tildes I'm part of only uses the mailbox protocol and thus doens't allow external mail protocols (no pop3 or ... whatever the other is.)
But wit ha bit of hackery, it can be done. All because claws supports those super old ways of doing things.
It's also my usenet reader. Again hackish and not ideal, but it works.
Sad that you can't HTML with it.