Ask HN: Good IMAP Email Clients?

6 points by pudgywalsh 25 days ago | 8 comments

I'm looking for a good, simple desktop IMAP email client for Windows and Linux and coming up empty handed.

Thunderbird absolutely sucks now, it is borderline unusable (it would not connect to our internal email system, and I had no patience with its incomprehensible UI to figure out why).

New Outlook is just a web wrapper.

It feels like there are far fewer options in this space than existed 20 years ago.

Does anyone still use Seamonkey?

scorpioxy 25 days ago |

Thunderbird has been great for me. With internal email systems, connection issues were usually due to proprietary protocols doing things in weird and undocumented ways that was the problem.

I've had a few issues with it for sure but still on it as nothing compares. Definitely not for the price. You didn't say what's incomprehensible about the UI, it seems fine to me. I don't need my email client to look slick(subjective anyway), I just need it to work and work well.

sandreas 25 days ago |

There is nothing like Apple Mail in my opinion, but here are some alternatives... I use Evolution in Linux, but since you explicetely need Windows, I only listed cross Plattform...

Vivaldi

MailSpring

Pelton

BetterBird

Aerion

Self-hosted:

Kurrier

NextCloud

Kushvinth 24 days ago | |

Mhm, I would not suggest anyone to selfhost SMTP; you will most probably be flagged as bots

sandreas 22 days ago | | |

These are self-hosted clients... It's a web interface for multi-mail (many accounts) not tied to one provider. This is not about hosting a DIY mail server.

Also see https://roundcube.net/

sleetdrop 25 days ago |

If you liked the all in one solution like Seamonkey, You can also try Vivaldi Browser which created by people who built the original Opera Browser.

https://vivaldi.com/download/

sleetdrop 25 days ago |

Have you tried claws mail.

https://www.claws-mail.org/

BTW: It’s GTK based, so it looks not very native on windows.

ggm 25 days ago |

I use mbsync, to Maildir and then NMH Maildir to folder/file format.

I step over the OAuth with email-oauth2-proxy.

There are X frontends to NMH like Sylpheed or claws. They make sense.

g8oz 25 days ago |

Before giving up on Thunderbird I would suggest asking AI to help you debug the configuration.