I just can’t find a decent email client that looks like it’s from the last 20 years. Geary and Evolution both appear to be pretty modern but something about using Gmail with a Yubikey just doesn’t work and neither of them will connect to my account. Both on Fedora and OpenSUSE. Thunderbird works but it’s so old fashioned and Betterbird doesn’t look much better. What’s everyone else using?
- Sunny' 🌻 ( @Sunny@slrpnk.net ) 70•2 months ago
Thunderbird all the way 🙌
- makeasnek ( @makeasnek@lemmy.ml ) English8•2 months ago
I have used Thunderbird for years. HOWEVER:
- I don’t know why Thunderbird can’t get a reliable, functional search ability. It’s such garbage. I constantly have to delete my entire search index and start from scratch, it is immensely frustrating.
- The problems connecting to gmail are also so frustrating. Yes, they are Google’s fault but if you make an e-mail client you maybe need to add a workaround for the world’s most popular e-mail provider. It’s totally fixable because you can apply those fixes manually.
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English1•2 months ago
Are you taking about the semi recent rewrite or the old discontinued version?
- makeasnek ( @makeasnek@lemmy.ml ) English1•2 months ago
All versions over the past decade including the latest one
- Rentlar ( @Rentlar@lemmy.ca ) 35•2 months ago
Thunderbird for desktop computer, K-9 mail for mobile phone.
- Shdwdrgn ( @Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ) English18•2 months ago
What do you find “old-fashioned” about Thunderbird? Do you not consider an interface “new” if they don’t change it and hide all the common features every five minutes like Microsoft does? It’s an email client, you read your emails in it. How would you do it better?
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English1•2 months ago
What’s even better is that Thunderbird somehow managed to do better branding and marketing than Microsoft. Outlook (new) is the dumbest name I have ever heard. And that’s compared to Thunderbird supernova
- Deebster ( @Deebster@programming.dev ) 18•2 months ago
Thunderbird on desktop, although I don’t love it.
FairEmail on Android.
- Ephera ( @Ephera@lemmy.ml ) 18•2 months ago
Thunderbird had a redesign not too long ago. I mean, maybe you still consider it old-fashioned, but did you check you’re on the latest version?
- arglebargle ( @westyvw@lemm.ee ) English16•2 months ago
Thunderbird. It’s great
I am not sure how to make it look shitty like Gmail, maybe you could theme it to wast a ton of space.
Seriously, do you want a useful email client or not?
- fine_sandy_bottom ( @fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ) 15•2 months ago
Thunderbird is fine.
Maybe I have too much grey in my beard - I don’t care how modern it looks.
- lud ( @lud@lemm.ee ) 3•2 months ago
Nah it has nothing to do with your beard colour.
I like it a lot and I’m almost as old or as young as Thunderbird is.
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English1•2 months ago
I gotta tell you… If you’re almost as old or young as Thunderbird that makes you a graybeard. Do me a favor. Next time you get out of a chair, try not to make a noise. We all find out we’ve turned old somehow.
Just so its clear this comment is coming from a loving place I love Thunderbird and you seem nice and I enjoyed your comment. Just razzing you a little bit as someone else who’s also around the same age as Thunderbird
- lud ( @lud@lemm.ee ) 2•2 months ago
I don’t have a beard yet but sure.
- Possibly linux ( @possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ) English13•2 months ago
Why is Thunderbird old? It recently had a major redo and was rebranded with the supernova branding. Try the flatpak version.
- AnActOfCreation ( @AnActOfCreation@programming.dev ) 12•2 months ago
Thunderbird with the conversations add-on. It’s a game-changer that makes it much easier to transition from Gmail.
- tmpod ( @tmpod@lemmy.pt ) 2•2 months ago
Interesting extension, didn’t know about it, thanks!
- PenguinCoder ( @Penguincoder@beehaw.org ) English12•2 months ago
Old school here, I use mutt. :P on android I use FairEmail and really like it.
- dan ( @dan@upvote.au ) 7•2 months ago
FairEmail is great! One of the best email clients I’ve ever used.
It started struggling a bit with a large mailbox though, so I switched to K9 Mail (which I’ve heard will eventually become Thunderbird for Android)
- callyral [he/they] ( @callyral@pawb.social ) 12•2 months ago
I use Thunderbird and I don’t think it looks old, specially after recent updates. You can also change the colors which is pretty cool.
- Jure Repinc ( @JRepin@lemmy.ml ) 11•2 months ago
- 0x0 ( @0x0@programming.dev ) 2•2 months ago
Wasn’t it supposed to become Thunderbird for android?
- Adda ( @Adda@lemmy.ml ) English8•2 months ago
You are mistaking KMail (desktop client by KDE) and K-9 Mail (Android client that is being rebranded into Thunderbird for Android).
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 2•2 months ago
I think this was a different smartphone app that would get the Thunderbird branding… searching… ah, it’s K-9: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/06/revealed-thunderbird-on-android-plans-k9/
- k_rol ( @k_rol@lemmy.ca ) 2•2 months ago
You are thinking of K9
- Troy ( @troyunrau@lemmy.ca ) 1•2 months ago
Oh hi Jure of KDE fame ;)
How is KMail these days? I haven’t used it in years. It always largely worked, but never really exceled at anything.
- apoisel ( @apoisel@discuss.tchncs.de ) 10•2 months ago
Mutt.
- communism ( @communism@lemmy.ml ) 10•2 months ago
Thunderbird. Idk what you mean by old fashioned. It works fine, and you can style it with gtk themes.
On Android I use K-9 Mail, which looks modern to me.
I mean everyone has their preferences, but personally I don’t use email clients because I want to look at something pretty—I use them to read my emails. Thunderbird mostly matching my gtk theme is more than enough for me.
- Scrath ( @Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•2 months ago
I don’t know if you were aware of this but K-9 Mail has joined up with the thunderbird developers and will at some point transition to thunderbird for mobile devices
- communism ( @communism@lemmy.ml ) 1•2 months ago
Woah, that’s cool. Yeah I had never heard that but I’ve read the K-9 blog posts about it now. From the sounds of it, K-9 Mail is just going to continue developing along the same trajectory they were going on but are just going to change the branding to Thunderbird. Which is cool with me.
- Lettuce eat lettuce ( @Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml ) 9•2 months ago
I just use Protonmail’s web client. Fast, sleek, similar polish to gmail imo.
For an actual desktop client, Thunderbird with Dark Reader addon and some tweaks for theming.
Honestly though, I just prefer the web client from Proton, it’s really nice.