Email client for Linux
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I've settled for using Thunderbird for POP + Recoll for search. I can't believe how good Recoll is; in my opinion this is even better than Gmail's search in their Web GUI. I will be using Recoll for a lot more things now, but my immediate need for search has been fixed for now. Though running Thunderbird just for downloading emails does seem a bit overkill. We'll see
If it works, it works -- glad you found a way
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Sylpheed handles large amounts of email much better. It's fast even at 50k plus emails. Last time I tried Claws Mail, it choked on that.
Edge cases are not the norm, though.
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I use evolution and it works well for everything besides my work Gmail but that has more to do with security policies than evolution
I was pleasantly surprised with Evolution the last time I tried to use Gnome, it used to be a buggy, bloated mess. But alas, I can't manage to use Gnome for more than a release or two. Now I'm looking for a decent Wayland native alternative to Thunderbird, but it just doesn't exist without DE bloat at this point. Maybe someone will build a modern replacement for Sylpheed/Claws.
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How has your experience been with Mutt? I've heard about neomutt from a lot of people but I'm honestly a bit intimidated to move to a completely CLI-based email client especially because it's another configuration file which I'll need to be mindful of
I really liked the client but HTML emails are a real pain in the ass.
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Please do. I'm on Debian and it didn't work for me
I just checked on Linux (Thunderbird 128.5.2esr, Opensuse Tumbleweed) and the behaviour is the same.
If I search “PMASUP236”, it returns the email as a result.
If I search “SUP236” it does not.This is using the normal search function (top of screen in current version). Quick Filter does not look at attachments at all by the looks. The "Attachments" toggle is only a has / does not have attachment filter.
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I just checked on Linux (Thunderbird 128.5.2esr, Opensuse Tumbleweed) and the behaviour is the same.
If I search “PMASUP236”, it returns the email as a result.
If I search “SUP236” it does not.This is using the normal search function (top of screen in current version). Quick Filter does not look at attachments at all by the looks. The "Attachments" toggle is only a has / does not have attachment filter.
I see. Is there a way I can use regular expressions to search? I.e. "*SUP236*"?
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I have been looking for an email client on Linux after being tired of Gmail and Outlook web clients.
I had Thunderbird installed on my system and thought I'd give it a spin. I set up POP for my email accounts and it worked fantastic... For a total of 2 hours, after which I realised that searching in Thunderbird is simply not going to work for me. I need to search by attachment name and sometimes even by text inside attachment and unfortunately Thunderbird can't do that (I think I tried an extension too but it made the UI super clunky to the point that I couldn't even understand how to navigate it anymore).
Does Betterbird or any other email client fix this problem? I'm willing to try other options if they are FOSS.
Thanks
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Edge cases are not the norm, though.
I'm not so sure that it is an edge case. I'm just an average person. I'm sure there are many people who have reason to receive and/or save much larger volumes of email than I do. Regardless, it's always better to have software that works well under a wide range of circumstances.
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hows the search fuction in mutt? For eg, if i want to search an email thread from like 3 months ago, does it function well or do I need to open my broswer....
It works great. I never open a browser to search for mail: http://mutt.postle.net/searching/
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I'm not so sure that it is an edge case. I'm just an average person. I'm sure there are many people who have reason to receive and/or save much larger volumes of email than I do. Regardless, it's always better to have software that works well under a wide range of circumstances.
On my company mail account I have collected circa 10000 mails during the past 10 years, which is circa 80 mails a month - and that is a lot.
If you're not following multiple high-volume mailing lists since a decade and archive every single e-mail I don't think its normal to have 50000 mails in a mailbox.
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