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Discussion on: What email client do you use and why? (Inbox is driving me nuts!)

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Dian Fay

As far as I've been able to tell, there are no good email clients; it's mostly a matter of finding what you're willing to put up with. I've tried several.

  • Thunderbird: kind of ugly and really wants to be a full-fledged office system when all I actually want is to check my email. I still use it because it's powerful and easy to configure.
  • Apple Mail: works well enough that I've never bothered trying to replace it on my Macbook.
  • Sylpheed/Claws: works but clunky.
  • Inky: I liked where they were going with the UI, but I was less than thrilled about needing an umbrella account. Also it had major stability issues when I tried it.
  • N1: I can't remember why I gave up on this one.
  • Mutt: I love command line tools and think of arcane setup processes as fun weekend projects. My .vimrc is multiple hundreds of lines long. Configuring mutt defeated me. Also lack of HTML email support is a bit of an issue, sad as it is that people are sending HTML emails in the first place.
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Sean Wood

Thanks for this! The original reason for switching from whatever I had before to Inbox was for the snoozing feature. Looks as thought N1 has this as well. I used N1 a while back, but it was in early development and not 100% stable.

Thunderbird takes me back to Linux days (I'm a converted Apple user now) and it was great but clunky, as you said. Same idea for Sylpheed.

I would avoid apple Mail simply because I'm in that Android Phone/Macbook situation, and wouldn't mind something that is cross platform (not that many others are either).

Mutt... I mean, it's a novelty thing right? 😁