A good e-mail client for linux?
I have been using KDE for a while, while I like many features I am looking for suggestions to the default email client:
Kmail - completely unusable for me and the only one which could maybe be integrated with kontacts, it could not receive mails from IMAP or pop or would receive only sometimes
Geary - good but too minimal, I need at least some kind of contact list and mailing lists feature, maybe this integrates with gnome contacts? I couldn't find anything in settings
like this
don't like this
Dotdev
in reply to dontblink • • •Novaling
in reply to Dotdev • • •I have no idea if Betterbird is actually better than regular Thunderbird, but I use that cause people said so and I read about it a bit. If it does die I guess I'll switch to Thunderbird, just a little cautious about Mozilla after the privacy policy fiasco.
Betterbird is in flathub too which is great for newbies like me.
Karna
in reply to Novaling • • •Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozill…
free and open source email client and personal information manager
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)grrgyle
in reply to Karna • • •NekuSoul
in reply to Novaling • • •exu
in reply to dontblink • • •mina86
in reply to dontblink • • •banazir
in reply to dontblink • • •Claws Mail - The user-friendly, lightweight, and fast e-mail client
www.claws-mail.orgArthur Besse
in reply to banazir • • •At first i thought, wow, cool they're still developing that? Doing a release or two a year, i see.
I used to use it long ago, and was pretty happy with it.
::: spoiler But looking closer now, what is going on with security there?! Sorry to be the bearer of probably bad news, but... 😬
The only three CVEs in their changelog are from 2007, 2010, and 2014, and none are specific to claws.
Does that mean they haven't had any exploitable bugs? That seems extremely unlikely for a program written in C with the complexity that being an email client requires.
All of the recent changelog entries which sound like
... show moreAt first i thought, wow, cool they're still developing that? Doing a release or two a year, i see.
I used to use it long ago, and was pretty happy with it.
::: spoiler But looking closer now, what is going on with security there?! Sorry to be the bearer of probably bad news, but... 😬
The only three CVEs in their changelog are from 2007, 2010, and 2014, and none are specific to claws.
Does that mean they haven't had any exploitable bugs? That seems extremely unlikely for a program written in C with the complexity that being an email client requires.
All of the recent changelog entries which sound like possibly-security-relevant bugs have seven-digit numbers prefixed with "CID", whereas the other bugs have four-digit bug numbers corresponding to entries in their bugzilla.
After a few minutes of searching, I have failed to figure out what "CID" means, or indeed to find any reference to these numbers outside of claws commit messages and release announcements. In any case, from the types of bugs which have these numbers instead of bugzilla entries, it seems to be the designation they are using for security bugs.
The effect of failing to register CVEs and issue security advisories is that downstream distributors of claws (such as the Linux distributions which the project's website recommends installing it from) do not patch these issues.
For instance, claws is included in Debian stable and three currently-supported LTS releases of Ubuntu - which are places where users could be receiving security updates if the project registered CVEs, but are not since they don't.
Even if you get claws from a rolling release distro, or build the latest release yourself, it looks like you'd still be lagging substantially on likely-security-relevant updates: there have actually been numerous commits containing CID numbers in the month since the last release.
If the claws developers happen to read this: thanks for writing free software, but: please update your FAQ to explain these CID numbers, and start issuing security advisories and/or registering CVEs when appropriate so that your distributors will ship security updates to your users!
:::
git.claws-mail.org Git - claws.git/search
git.claws-mail.org8adger
in reply to dontblink • • •Cosmo_IV
in reply to dontblink • • •janbaumy
in reply to Cosmo_IV • • •I second this! It seems to have more features than Thunderbird while being just a fifth of the file size.
I can‘t confirm this, but I have read elsewhere that Thunderbird is a bit bloated.
Pirata
in reply to janbaumy • • •Random Dent
in reply to Pirata • • •Pirata
in reply to Random Dent • • •janbaumy
in reply to Pirata • • •That‘s not how it works. The mails are not stored on BetterBird servers (there are none). Your mails are stored on your E-Mail providers server (like Gmail) and downloaded to your local client via IMAP or POP3.
The developer of BetterBird does not have access to any of that.
Pirata
in reply to janbaumy • • •Oh, understood. Dumb me, lol.
So, aren't there security risks associated with using Betterbird?
n2burns
in reply to dontblink • • •gian
in reply to n2burns • • •Frater Mus
in reply to dontblink • • •90% of the time I use web interfaces, but I often have spotty connectivity while boondocking. So I need a client that can get/send gmail POP3 in narrow windows of connectivity.
I started with thunderbird but something (can't remember what) wasn't working well. Ended up with Evolution. It also syncs well to google calendar and google tasks.
Evolution Mail and Calendar
help.gnome.orgzweieuro
in reply to dontblink • • •Works like a charm for me.
dukeofdummies
in reply to dontblink • • •Random Dent
in reply to dukeofdummies • • •Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌
in reply to Random Dent • •don't like this
catloaf doesn't like this.
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Spaniard
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in reply to Spaniard • •For me TB lacks a few things, I have a vague feeling that BB is what TB would have been if Mozilla still cared for users more than other things 🥲
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Shareni
in reply to dukeofdummies • • •bund
in reply to dontblink • • •Engywook
in reply to dontblink • • •geoma
in reply to dontblink • • •BCsven
in reply to dontblink • • •dontblink
in reply to BCsven • • •BCsven
in reply to dontblink • • •Would this help
help.gnome.org/admin/system-ad…
Or
github.com/GNOME/gnome-kiosk
GitHub - GNOME/gnome-kiosk: Read-only mirror of gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-kiosk
GitHubmarkstos
in reply to dontblink • • •www-gem
in reply to dontblink • • •This recent post may be of interest to you: lemmy.ml/post/27474047
You may also find some ideas here or there.
I personaly use the power of neomutt and notmuch, but it's not a GUI option if that's what you're looking for.
GitHub - luong-komorebi/Awesome-Linux-Software: 🐧 A list of awesome Linux softwares
GitHubEggymatrix
in reply to dontblink • • •Thunderbird
It is bot the most feature rich and the most annoying thing, but it works
TXL
in reply to dontblink • • •cohete
in reply to dontblink • • •If your into Linux and a decent admin. Nothing is better than neomutt. Add not much.
Filtering and searching is faster than Google on gigs of mail.
It will take a long time to configure it well. But it's worth it. I rarely change the config.
I have been using Linux since 1992.
JustAnotherKay
in reply to cohete • • •Taleya
in reply to cohete • • •Giddy
in reply to dontblink • • •Taleya
in reply to dontblink • • •Colonel Panic
in reply to dontblink • • •BullishUtensil
in reply to dontblink • • •Is anybody still using mailspring? I remember trying it back in '16 or '17 or so, liked it, but didn't really feel the need for a standalone client at the time.
Now I'm looking forward to creating more email addresses, and multiple tabs of webmail are getting gradually less appealing.
Sure, Thunderbird works...
MonkderVierte
in reply to dontblink • • •blackris
in reply to dontblink • • •AnUnusualRelic
in reply to dontblink • • •Kmail, Thunderbird, Evolution. That's pretty much it.
There's always some weird niche client somewhere but it won't be a hidden gem. Although I guess you can always use Pine (or rather Alpine nowadays) if you want to appear ubergeeky.
steeznson
in reply to dontblink • • •Has anyone got gmail or outlook working via SMTP in the past couple years? I was using the former with emacs gnus and then it started demanding additional auth that I couldn't provide via a simple file, then in the past 6 months the latter stopped letting me log in.
My
~/.gnusfile was like this -~/.authinfo(encrypted with gpg) -I think I might need to start hosting my own email se... show more
Has anyone got gmail or outlook working via SMTP in the past couple years? I was using the former with emacs gnus and then it started demanding additional auth that I couldn't provide via a simple file, then in the past 6 months the latter stopped letting me log in.
My
~/.gnusfile was like this -~/.authinfo(encrypted with gpg) -I think I might need to start hosting my own email server because every authentication option on these services requires some extra step or fingerprinting that gnus can't provide. Maybe I should give up and try Thunderbird to see if that would work.
steeznson
in reply to steeznson • • •Tovervlag
in reply to dontblink • • •Matt
in reply to dontblink • • •Betterbird. Simply better.
Betterbird ProjectCoding4Fun
in reply to Matt • • •loo
in reply to Matt • • •danielintempesta
in reply to dontblink • • •morbidcactus
in reply to dontblink • • •tiny
in reply to dontblink • • •toastal
in reply to dontblink • • •aercthruhome-manageraccounts on NixOSphilluminati
in reply to dontblink • • •No one has mentioned the command line: aerc
I use it and it’s very minimal and clean.
Nanook
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