I have been looking for an email client on Linux after being tired of Gmail and Outlook web clients.

I had Thunderbird installed on my system and thought I’d give it a spin. I set up POP for my email accounts and it worked fantastic… For a total of 2 hours, after which I realised that searching in Thunderbird is simply not going to work for me. I need to search by attachment name and sometimes even by text inside attachment and unfortunately Thunderbird can’t do that (I think I tried an extension too but it made the UI super clunky to the point that I couldn’t even understand how to navigate it anymore).

Does Betterbird or any other email client fix this problem? I’m willing to try other options if they are FOSS.

Thanks

  • a14o@feddit.org
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    11 months ago

    Where indexing and searching mails is concerned, notmuch is the best I’ve seen. Do note that this is not an e-mail client, it only indexes, tags and searches (following the “UNIX philosophy” of doing one job well).

    I personally use it with neomutt as a mail user agent, which is almost certainly not what you want. Notmuch supports other clients but they’re all pretty arcane.

    So this is not a recommendation, just a glimpse into advanced e-mail setups I guess.

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    Any time I want to watch my emails I just go to the web ui for it. I doubt any 3rd party client will ever come close to what google and Microsoft offer for their own email accounts.

    • marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I’d prefer not to go to their Web UIs because of how much tracking is present on those sites (adding rules and filters to ublock origin for Gmail nearly killed me). I’d prefer a FOSS option.

      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        11 months ago

        … they already have your emails. Not only that, but just about everything else they could possibly want to know about you.

        Unless you plan on moving to a more private provider I wouldn’t worry about that.