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Does anyone know of a good Linux email client that isn’t crippled by show-stopping bugs of this sort? I used Mailspring for a while, which has a nice modern interface, but quit after discovering that my drafts were only saved locally, not on the server. This has been an open bug for at least two years.

In the end I’ve always fallen back to Thunderbird as the least bad option.

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I live in the KDE ecosysteem so I gave Kmail a serious shot, but it is such a pain to setup with multiple accounts that I gave up. It is very easy to misconfigure sth that I can't think of being a use case anybody needs, but then things like reply to all by default were removed because it ahem a certain group of FLOSS Devs is against such shenanigans. Pity, because apart from these issues I really like this mua.

Thunderbird is and will be for some time the only realistic least bad option. Once they replaced xul, perhaps updating its visuals will get easier.

Have you tried Geary? I helped a colleague get set up with ElementaryOS a while back and it looked really nice and, compared to Evolution, was much lighter and faster.

I haven't used it in anger though, I tend to stick to email in the browser these days.

I did use Geary for a while, I can't remember now why I stopped. I appreciated how lightweight it was but I think it was just a little too lightweight, missing one or two features that I'd rather put up with thunderbird than live without.

ElementaryOS now have a new email client that uses the Evolution libraries but has a Geary-like interface:

https://github.com/elementary/mail

I'm afraid the genre is pretty much dead as everyone seems to do email in the browser nowadays. Apart from TUI MUAs like Pine and Mutt - that may not be everyone's cup of tea - I found Sylpheed quite useful for a while. It is not as bloated as Evolution or Thunderbird but still has all the useful features I need and like. Its development seems to have slowed down though, so I don't know if it has any future...

Man, hearing this is a reminder of why I don't use Linux as my desktop OS and likely never will. My default mix of applications has shifted over the last 30+ years, but e-mail has always been one of the most fundamental apps for me, going back to the VM/CMS mail client (and before that VMS's mail program which was comparatively a disaster).

I'm not sure why you think this issue is specific to linux, it isn't.

seamonkey continues the Netscape Communicator legacy of having a browser and MUA together in one product. I use it for doing IMAP and POP actions to reorganize and back up my mail. I don't compose email in it much, but it does give you the choice of HTML or plaintext.

also, emacs can be used as an email client

Doesnt seamonkey basically bundle an old version of Thunderbird? Which itself, while very functional, isn't exactly slick and modern ;)

I highly recommend claws-mail. It is lightweight, very stable, and easily scriptable with Python.

I've used several, on linux and MacOS, and gmail. Now I use mutt, and am happy. Nothing else comes close. But the author writes that he needs integration with cardDAV, or something. I don't know if mutt can do that.

Emulate macOS in a VM and download Spark ;) I recently discovered this email client and it completely revolutionized how I do email.

A 5GB limit, and the $6/month (?!?!) has a 10GB limit??????

For their file storage/sharing service unrelated to emailing.

Past security issues aside, Bluemail.

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