What's your email client of choice?

Kindly Remember@lemmy.world to Android@lemmy.world – 154 points –

I have been using Outlook for the longest time and have tried FairEmail a couple of times and simply deleted it. Tried sticking through it for about a month and I'll be sticking with it for a good long time now :)

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I quite like using K-9 Mail, it merged with Thunderbird and great things are coming for it, I think it's awesome

The problem I have with K9 is that the great things have been coming for the past decade - even before the Thunderbird thing

Do you know why its Google Play rating is so abysmal? Everyone seems furious about some redesign, but lemmy loves it.

Redesigns are always perceived poorly. Every decrease in performance, every lost feature, every relocated setting is heavily felt by all the power-users. For new users tho, K9 probably became more viable/attractive.

Eventually people will get used to the design, performance issues will get fixed, new features will be (re)added and the rating will improve again.

Same thing happened with the Firefox Android Browser.

Gmail because I'm super boring and it works.

Except that now I have to use Outlook too cause Uni moved from Google to Outlook blobcat, cry

I REALLY liked the Inbox app they made for gmail. Sadly, like all the best things google makes, it went the way of the dinosaurs.

That was the only brief moment in time where I had actually cleared out my inbox. Now it's just a nightmare.

You can add an outlook account to the gmail app. You may have to add it as Microsoft exchange instead of a regular Outlook account though, but the process is the same.

I suggest you use Outlook Lite instead of the normal Outlook. It's a lot lighter and will not prompt you to add any MDM profiles if your institution set any up

Also Gmail, because the spam filtering is great.

I keep a copy in Thunderbird though, just in case my account 'goes away' somehow.

Same! I do have k9 and Thunderbird but Gmail is just so convenient with filters and labels too!

Please don't hate me, but I use the Gmail app on Android since it works well enough.

On my desktop though I use Thunderbird, and have for about as long as I can remember.

K9 mail on Android since many years and Thunderbird on laptop, also since many years. Also use Gmail, Yahoo Mail.

I like FairEmail on Android and don't see myself switching to something else anytime soon. For the desktop I use Thunderbird

Nine, best for a full Outlook experience and a calendar color picker

Hello, fellow Nine user! Glad to see at least some other people are aware of it.

  • Android - K-9 mail
  • Desktop - Thunderbird

Soon to be Thunderbird on both ;)

I use ProtonMail. Additionally, i have set up e-mail aliases with my domain - i get e-mail addresses like kbin@mydomain.com, or personal@mydomain.com. Its quite useful when i suddenly get sent a bunch of random spam e-mail.

I can then just block that e-mail from receving e-mail, its quite handy.

K9 Mail is my favorite one so far. I've tried FairEmail but the UI was confusing.

I mean, thunderbird has been around forever and it's never done me dirty.

Same here, It's the second thing I install on a new computer, the first being Firefox.

Every morning when I turn on the computer, I start Firefox and Thunderbird, and then leave Thunderbird in the background, quietly doing its job.

I use FairEmail, too. I didn't like GMail and K9.

What didn't you like about K-9? I used FairEmail for a while and was happy enough with it, but K-9 seemed like a huge upgrade when I finally made the switch.

For me personally, K9's design seemed very unintuitive and complicated, when I first tried it almost 10 years ago. FairEmail for me is a great compromise between usability and feature-richness.

K9 is probably completely different from a decade ago, but I guess I will wait until K9 has merged completely with Thunderbird, before I look into it again.

I used FairMail. Nice and minimalistic with focus on security and privacy. Also OpenSource. Bought premium back then I had it. (I don’t have Android anymore , that’s why I can’t use it)

  • Desktop: Thunderbird
  • Android: K-9 Mail

I only used K-9 Mail for years

I used them for a long time, had some stuff in proton for a couple years and dropped them for the proton app which sucks.

On fastmail now and I see that k9 has or is getting jmap support. Pretty excited about that. Excited to to try it again.

Edison. I use it on my Pixel, iPhone, and iPad. It has some more advanced features I don't use, it just has a simple, straightforward UI on iOS and Android and doesn't hassle me too much about upgrading to paid features.

I use Thunderbird, but I absolutely despise the tabbed interface for everything. It used to be optional; then you could restore the old interface with an extension; now even that has been removed. I should just uninstall it at this point and find something different, especially given that my filters and rules are handled at the server level now.

I use alpine on smaller email accounts.

In the past, I liked Eudora the best.

ProtonMail :) (Edit: Oh i see client! (no matter as long as it works with ProtonBridge, or just web UI)

Outlook. It's solid on android and windows

Used to be a big fan til they started sneaking Bing search into my long press context menu.

Agreed, it's the best app I could find for using multiple accounts

Used Gmail for a long time, 2 weeks ago switched to Outlook and simply amazed. It's easy to use, doesn't show you any ads unlike Gmail. And keep tracking the mails is much more enjoyable compared to Gmail. I believe it can do more of that if rules can be applied to Google mail accounts.

Outlook drains my phone battery so fast I cannot use it. Stick to FairEmail now.

Thunderbird on the desktop, Aquamail on Android, RoundCube/SquirrelMail via the web in a pinch. Back in the day I also used Evolution on Linux (when T-bird was buggy and lacking some features). Despite having many email buckets in the cloud, I keep no mail in any of them. I've self-hosted since '99, so I've been able to do whatever.

I did use Outlook back in sepia times (pre-'98) and used Pegasus and/or Pine before that. :p

Patiently waiting for Thunderbird on mobile with k-9 so Gmail it is atm

  • On my desktop: GNOME Evolution - but only because my university uses Outlook w/ Exchange (cringe) and the UI is slightly more tolerable than Thunderbird.
  • On my phone: I just use the baked-in Samsung Mail app.

In terms of provider, I used to use Gmail for my personal, but got tired of Big G scraping my correspondence. I tried Proton, but its integration story is a complete joke (you can upload your calendar and contacts but there's no DAV support, their IMAP bridge is a non-standard-compliant dumpster fire that doesn't work with half the clients I tried...) so I ended up on Fastmail.

On Android I use Re:Work, like interface the best. Before that I have used previous app from the same developer (I think it was Nine mail?).

On Windows I really disliked Thunderbird, so currently testing out emClient.

Either k9 or the native email client (Samsung Email, LG Email, ...) when they have a good Systemwide integration.

I used outlook for years. Then they threw ads in between emails... I instantly deleted outlook and haven't looked back. The last place I want to see ads is my fucking email 🙄

What do you use then? It seems like all of the major providers have ads

I started using Spark late last year. It's simplified my mail handling quite a bit. There's also a desktop client for Windows, Dunno about OSX and IOS.

I've migrated from just using a gmail account to using Anonaddy which point towards a Tutanota email. The migration was PAINFUL, but glad I persisted and went through with it.

I used Aqua Mail Pro for years and it's fantastic. They're switching to a subscription model for $30/yr so I switched to Samsung email.

Wow - I had Aquamail from 2015 and loved that app; so sad to see another company go for the shitification of their product.

Fellow AquaMail refugee here. My work actually blocks Samsung Mail, but the paid version of Nine works great, and on the same phone, has a noticeably faster UI when compared to AquaMail.

Been using K-9 Mail because they support OpenPGP. Also, their user interface is miles better than FairEmail's.

I use Tutanota's clients, and enjoy it. Haven't had any issues, was a great replacement to the unencrypted privacy-invasive Gmail and Google Calendar, sorting to folders has been even more convenient

i'm just using tutanota since they don't work with 3rd party clients

I used AquaMail for years, but they just decided that this fall they will go subscription, and old paid users who bought the app will not get all features. So, I've transitioned to the paid (one time purchase) version of Nine email app(by 9folders). It is equally capable, working with my free accounts and my O365 corporate account (including synching calendar). I looked at several open source options, and none were competent to deal with my Work O365 stuff.

I have been using Nine for literally over a decade. Amazing app, very well supported.

Web based only here. I have multiple address though so the "client" varies. Outlook, gmail, Proton.

Literally just started using k9 mail on my phone and it is amazing. It just does all of the setup for you.

For Gmail users on Mac desktop, I really can’t recommend Minestream enough, if a paid app isn’t a dealbreaker. It’s designed by ex-Applers and implements gmail’s API completely— even to the point of the signature editor and vacation auto responder and having a mode that only shows unread messages and starred messages in your inbox (which is kind of a badass way to stay on top of busy mailboxes).

I've probably tried every client out there and repeatedly keep exploring, but I always end back on Newton

Been using mutt for years, and I still love it. But getting it to works is more and more of a pain nowadays, and I find myself using whatever webmail my company uses (right now O365). For personnal emails, mutt on the desktop, and a selfhosted roundcube for when I don't have a client.

Careful if you're using Outlook on Android. From what I've read, it doesn't actually locally handle non-exchange accounts like IMAP or POP3 (why are you using POP3 though). It's done on Microsoft's servers, so your basically giving Microsoft your e-mails. I'm not sure what kind of access they get to them from the privacy agreement you probably just clicked past.

So Outlook in Android users Microsoft servers to fetch your mail, and the client just shows whatever the server got.

Gmail on mobile.

Thunderbird on the desktop. I keep TB running all the time to do filtering. Google filtering is lacking.

KMail for Linux (KDE) and K-9 for Android. I used to use Thunderbird, but hit a couple of bugs that just wouldn't go away. Absolutely love KMail.

Although my main one is gmail, I have been using proton mail for a while and I'm getting to point where I trust it for most stuff and I will start to move non-critical stuff away from gmail.

I'm in the same boat, I'm very impressed with proton mail, their UI is very good.

Every time I try a different email client (on the desktop) I always go back to Thunderbird within a few days. Within the last few months I've grown to love a T-bird fork called "Betterbird" which seems a lot snappier and more responsive than the "official" bird.

I manage my e-mails with Blackberry Hub. (On a Fold 4).

It's not amazing, but works well enough.

Apple Mail on Mac and iPhone, because it’s simple and it works well.

On desktop I stick to the wonderful (for Gnome users, at least) @Geary.

On Android K-9 is fantastic, but regrettably I'm currently using the stock Gmail app because I had trouble setting up my Office365 work email. :(

I ❤️ FairMail. It is so customizable and versatile, I even bought the pro version for support.

Also using outlook. I can say for certain there are some bugs with IMAP email accounts, but other than that it has been working well for me for years.

The only thing I don't like about it (other than the IMAP bugs) is the notification sounds that are exactly the same as my work mail on PC. I get jittery whenever I hear those sounds.

I use Em Client on desktop and I love it, on android the Em Client app is still in beta and quite unstable so for now I'm using outlook. Looking at the comments I should give K9 a go.

Edit: Switched to FairEmail for Android

I am with Google Workspace, so most of the time I would use the website, but if I had to use something, it would be Thunderbird on Desktop and Spark on Mobile.

Used Eudora long ago. As its support dropped and Qualcomm's development of Thunderbird took off, somewhere during that I embraced the spiritual companion of Firefox. I have to use Outlook at work, that helps me not consider changing at home. Also jumped on the Gmail bandwagon back when you had to get an invite to participate. It was just a side email at the time with storage built in, but when my original ISP provider finally threatened to charge me for having an email account, I moved everything over and linked Thunderbird up to pull from Gmail.

Eudora remains in my heart as the acme of email clients!

The closest thing I have found to it is EM Client, which also has calendaring built in. I find it’s well worth the money, particularly if you have a variety of email accounts across multiple domains, including Google.

I am with Google Workspace, so most of the time I would use the website, but if I had to use something, it would be Thunderbird on Desktop and Spark on Mobile.

Since google threatened to end legacy gsuite accounts I ended up migrating my email to another service (Namecheap).

Because of that I also had to use different email clients.

Desktop - emClient (prefer this to Thunderbird)

Android - Spark

Both work pretty well for me so far.

It's paid (one off $15 I think), but has a two week trial but I've been using Nine for a few years now, pretty happy with it.

Protonmail + Duckduckgo's email service, which links to a preexistent email (proton in my case) and allows you to clear trackers from emails and to use randomly generated email adresses.

Edit: only now realized that you asked for client, welp, I use proton's client, but I've been considering using thunderbird lately

I've been using Spark and remained using it especially now that they have a desktop client it's just so clean.

Thunderbird on the desktop; K-9 Mail on Android.

no client - firefox containers for when I'm forced to use gsuite (work stuff) so I can keep different gmail tabs open without cross contaminating the cookies. And ProtonMail for personal (also in its own container).

Spark on both Android and Win. The AI integration is surprisingly useful, albeit I think a paid feature. I also personally like the look of the clients and they are pretty fully featured.

I'm moving to Tutanota so I have to use there client on desktop and mobile. I have Thunderbird for my Gmail and Outlook emails on Desktop and just use Gmail and Outlook apps on my phone.

Work Desktop: Microsoft Outlook Work Mobile: Microsoft Outlook Home Desktop: mail.google.com Home Mobile: GMail android app

Why? Because I was on Proton personally for a long time but got frustrated with the lack of features and also my wife and I rely heavily on shared groupware stuff like calendars and reminders, so we switched back to Google Mail. Once Proton is a bit more feature-rich, we'll take a look at it again.

Just remember what the Magic 8-ball says when you drink the water inside it… "Outlook is not good!"

Really, though, I know the 'me' of about 20 years ago would be shocked to hear this, but the whole Microsoft suite with Outlook is pretty comfortable to run and use. I use it when hosting websites for my business, and it's always worked how I needed it.

Beyond that, I used Thunderbird for years and that's my go-to client when I want to go free. It's easy to set up and people usually love using a Mozilla product.

Outlook mobile seems to be the only one to give mark as read function on the galaxy watch. That's the only reason I use it.

I actually swapped to Protonmail last night. Took awhile to change the email address on everything, but worth it. Trying out the free version for now, keeping my Gmail as a backup and for Android.

It's really good. I have a visionary account now and am very happy with the services. They have matured a lot over the last few years. I'm happy to pay for the security and not being a product.

I haven't figured out a reason to use a separate email client up to this point. I just use the webapps for Gmail and Fastmail.

I use thunderbird cause I saw the new logo and thought it was cool.

Tried Fair mail and k-mail and they are ok... Liked Outlook but came back to Gmail since it can't be removed from the device anyways..

Not exactly just a client but a client and a service: HEY from 37signals (formerly Basecamp).

I've been using it for a year and a half and I really love it.