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Email client recommendations ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by phantomwise@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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 😭 )
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 😅 )
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 ? 😭 )
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 ? 😅 https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary/Documentation

Any recommendation would be greatly appreciated !

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[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml -3 points 1 day ago

It's both but mostly Mozilla, I got fed up with Firefox and having to go through settings to see if there's anything weird enabled by default like telemetry and ads, and never knowing when Mozilla might add yet another wonderful opt-out feature like "privacy preserving ads". I really don't want to go through the same thing with my email client and my trust in Mozilla is somewhere down in the Earth's mantle. But I guess I shouldn't have called it "awful" since it's very subjective, for me personally it was a pain to find anything when I tried, even after trying to tweak it. I didn't know it had forks though, thanks I'll check them out !