Preferred E-mail client

What is your preferred E-mail client software

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I use mutt/fetchmail/nmh/abook but would hesitate to recommend to a newbie - my configuration files have hours of work in them. Once a user gets Mutt/NeoMutt tuned up, they usually won't give it up without a fight. For me, Mutt works for pop3 (email archival) on my workstation and imap4 for my laptop. Mutt handles #mh formats well and has good documentation to use with abook or an ldap server.

Sylpheed and its fork, Claws-Mail both use #mh format (each email is a file) for email storage. Claws-Mail has a vcard plugin and a not-so-secure html plugin. Importing *.ldif/*.csv addressbooks is easy in Sylpheed/Claws-Mail.

Alpine uses the mbox format where all emails are concatenated into a single file but is much easier to setup if you want a non-gui/keyboard driven client. Supposedly, Alpine can read #mh formated emails but I have not found enough documentation to try it out. Alpine has it's own address book, indicates that it can access both ldap address books and abook.

I use to recommend Sylpheed for newbies but it currently uses deprecated gtk2. Sylpheed 3.9 is in beta
https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/

Alpine for a quick to set up imap4 non-gui client.

I think squirrelmail and roundcube are webmail servers and in a slightly different category than mutt -> sylpheed
 
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I like Claws Mail. I've tried Sylpheed but Claws Mail feels like Sylpheed 2.0 (makes sense because its a fork). When I used TDE, I used Kmail since it integrates well with the environment.
 
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scottro said:
I used to use alpine, when it was pine, but switched to mutt over 20 years ago, (now using neomutt). It's not the simplest setup, but once done, it can handle just about everything.
I have a page on it, so to spam my own stuff (no ads on the site--a tiny bit of javascript to show when page was last updated and if you block javascript you miss nothing) at https://srobb.net/mutt.html
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I was pine user too but never alpine. I am claws-mail user.
 
For email I do not like to start GUI. There are few alternatives: alpine, gnus, mutt, heirloom mailx.

mutt is not my choice because of its poor imap support: To read a mail it downloads all the attachments.

I use alpine.
 
I use neomutt with imap. It works good.
Here my config
Code: 
set ssl_starttls=no
set ssl_force_tls=no
set smtp_url="smtp://127.0.0.1"
set smtp_pass=""
set smtp_authenticators=""
set imap_user="x@mail.ala"
set imap_pass="blabla"
set imap_authenticators="login"
set imap_check_subscribed
set folder=imap://127.0.0.1:143
set spoolfile="+INBOX"
 
Alain De Vos said:
I use neomutt with imap. It works good.
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Works good is not enough.

When you open a mail with attachments, does it first only download the text or downloads text and attachments?

I think, most people that are happy with mutt for reading with imap, are also not aware of the problem,
they consider normal that for reading an email with imap all attachments must be downloaded.
 
Work: alpine
Private: alpine & Claws Mail

BTW anyone noticed this new alpine feature asking me every time if I want to preserve my IMAP credentials?! ?I don’t want that! How can I disable that!??
 
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