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Best Email Client (self.linux)

submitted 2 months ago by C126 to c/[email protected]

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What's everyone's preferred email client these days?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Whats the best email service? I use Thunderbird for just about everything, but gmail has been getting on my nerves lately. I would love to selfhost, but my internet service provider blocks port 25...

[–] Salix 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I personally like both Posteo and mailbox.org, but they are paid email services.

You can use them for your email, contacts, calendars, and tasks. On Android, you can use Davx5 to sync them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've been using Protonmail and it does the job (although not for free). To use it with Thunderbird I need to use a "bridge" background app to decrypt it though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Same here. That works well for desktop, they also have an electron app that wraps their web ui into a desktop app and it works well enough. Bridge works very well for any other desktop app you'd want to use.

The only trouble is that on mobile your option is their app or the web interface, no ability to use alternative apps. The mobile app is good, but not great.

Overall its a good service and I'm happy bit you need to know these limitations going in or it could be frustrating.

[–] C126 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Great question. Gmail is still OK, but if love to degoogle more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah I would love to get off google. Good to know others are thinking the same.