Email client for Linux

[dirk@lemmy.ml]

This is why no-one in the right mind uses Sylpheed, but the actively maintained fork Claws Mail (which just recently had a new version released).

[a14o@feddit.org]

I'm a bit worried about throwing you in on the deep end of Linux here, but where indexing and searching mails is concerned, notmuch is the best I've seen. Do note that this is not an e-mail client, it only indexes, tags and searches (following the "UNIX philosophy" of doing one job well).

I personally use it with neomutt as a mail user agent, which is almost certainly not what you want. Notmuch supports other clients but they're all pretty arcane.

So this is not a recommendation, just a glimpse into advanced e-mail setups I guess.

[Guest]

maybe evolution is what you’re searching for

[Guest]

sudo apt install claws-mail

Fast, reliable, insanely functional - weird formats. Yes it has a calendar, works great.

[wwwgem@lemmy.ml]

You may find what you need here or there.

[Guest]

I have had the exact same issue as you. Thunderbird is great, but their attachment search is not. I spent a lot of time looking for a way to make it work and what I settled on is using a third party program to serve this function: Recoll (https://www.recoll.org/index.html).

It should be available in your distro's package repository.

You'll need to download your messages to your computer, but it will work in the way that you expect search to work (I.e. search by filename, search by text within attachments, search by text within emails). Setup is straightforward. You just need to point it to the Thunderbird profile directory where your emails are saved. As a bonus, you get good desktop search for all the other files on your computer too.

Sadly (don't throw anything at me), the only desktop email program that I have found that does search properly is Outlook desktop. On Linux, that is obviously a non-starter.

[crabandbroom@lemmy.ml]

I use Betterbird as my main email client so I tried out the attachment searching. Searching by attachment name seemed to work well, but it doesn't look like it searches for the text within the documents, at least not for PDFs. Not sure if there's like an OCR extension or anything that would do it, but yeah just the base Betterbird install doesn't do it as far as I can see.

[Guest]

Geary or Mailspring are the best options. Neither is perfect. I lean toward Geary.

[matriks404@lemmy.world]

If you're on Debian Stable you might have a version of Thunderbird that doesn't have this feature, since software there is a bit "outdated".

[golden_zealot@lemmy.ml]

My understanding with Tuta is that you cannot configure it to work with a third party desktop email client though, you are locked in to using theirs. You can't configure a Tuta email address to work with mutt or something for example I believe as there is no regular imap/pop like there are for services that don't use E2EE, or services that have some form of bridge for that like Proton did.

Maybe I am misinformed though.

[wolflink@sh.itjust.works]

I like mainspring but I can’t get my corporate outlook account to work with it

[marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Honestly I might try this. Or maybe I can use grep lol. We'll see how it fits in my workflow, I'm comfortable in the CLI but haven't really entertained the idea a CLI email client before. Thanks

[marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

That might actually be the case. I am indeed on Debian stable. Thanks

[Guest]

Recoll (thankfully) has a GUI. It isn't the prettiest app, but it was easy to set up and I've otherwise quite happy with it.

[cerement@slrpnk.net]

this is one of the things that struck me about email clients on Linux – CLI and GUI clients have followed two very different evolutionary paths – the CLI clients went for the “doing one job well” path (where you end up assembling a whole system of apps for sending and receiving email) and the GUI clients went for the “everything and the kitchen sink” path (where you end up trying to hide half the options so they don’t get in your way)

[warmaster@lemmy.world]

Why not install the Flatpak and get it now instead of waiting 3 months?

[marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Just coming back to say that I'm loving recoll. I've set up Thunderbird to download everything with POP and I've pointed recoll at the profile directory. Since Recoll also seems to be able to read PDFs, it is giving me amazing results at blazing speeds. Honestly if there was a decent application to just pull down email with POP I probably wouldn't even open thunderbird other than to reply to stuff

[wuphysics87@lemmy.ml]

Tired of Gmail? Switch to Kmail!

[annafrankfurter@lemmy.ml]

mutt or nothing

[lemminator@lemmy.today]

I learned about mutt ~12 years ago, and it changed my email-interface forever

all mutt, all the time