Hi, I tried using an email client over a year ago, and after trying almost all of them in the span of a week I gave up in frustration. Would anyone have a recommendation ? For an email client :
- That is actively maintained
- That is not controlled by a company that could pull a Mozilla on it (Thunderbird)
- That isn't proprietary
- That doesn't need 77 dependencies and 450 GB (WTF KMail π )
- That is reasonably fast and light and not too bloated (I just want to read emails, I don't need a full app suite...)
- That supports POP
- That supports writing HTML messages (sorry Claws, I really liked you but occasionally I kinda need to write formatted messages to preserve other people's sanity π )
- That supports reading HTML messages without showing the HTML version as attachments so that every single email has the paperclip icon and I can't tell which messages have real attachments (Sylpheed I think ?)
- That supports MailDir format for portability (why isn't it the default everywhere already instead of weird non-portable formats ? π )
- If possible, that doesn't have an interface that's so awful it's a pain to find anything (Thunderbird)
I also tested Geary and another one but I don't remember much about it... I can't find out whether Geary does support POP and maildir, its documentation page is... well it's a list 8 lines long, but on a page called "Documentation" so it's technically counts as documentation I guess ? π https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary/Documentation
Any recommendation would be greatly appreciated !
Personally, I use mu4e (part of the mu software) to read, organise, compose and send emails. It uses a text-based interface, and runs from within the GNU EMacs editor. Emails are stored locally in the Maildir format.
I am not sure if I can recommend this solution, as it can be a bit technical compared with other email clients. For me, it is entirely worth it, though.
+1 for mu4e, really awesome software. There are a few HTML composing tweaks possible, I use
org-msgthat lets me compose HTML withorg. (See my configuration.)Oh I didn't know terminal mail clients could do html formatting so I excluded them, it's nice to know that's not the case, thanks for the info !
HTML is text and
orgis basically a better Markdown. :-)Well yes HTML is technically text but who actually want to write HTML tags by hand in email ? π
I'm guessing
orgis a better solution to not do that ?HTML is not that bad. Iβd still argue that writing HTML e-mails is just a really bad idea. But yes,
orghas a somewhat cleaner syntax.