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Ask HN: What email client do you use, and do you love it?

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I currently use Superhuman. I like it much more than gmail. Saw Shortwave a while back, checked out their website today and it looks quite appealing. Anyone using and loving Shortwave (excluding friends of the company)? Anyone using any other email clients that they love?

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Evolution.

I use it for work with my Google Work account, and on my personal machine with my imap provider. Aliases, PGP, autobcc, virtual folders + labels, calendaring, tasks, multiple accounts, ...

I use imap custom labels (flags) + virtual folders and also use imapfilter to automatically add labels based on conditions (can write more complex stuff using lua). I really wish more clients supports imap custom labels. I am a zero inbox person, so its really important to be able to quickly and easily label things.

Invitations + Calendars all work well which is important for work.

As a heavy emacs user, I have considered emacs+mu4e. I think it'd work fine for my personal/side business, but I just don't think it work well for my work, as calendaring is critical.

For all the GTK2 and GTK3 era apps getting remade, it blows my mind that Evolution is not one of them. It's really comprehensive from a personal productivity point of view. Plugging it into Gmail, you get everything synced up in one interface. It's overwhelming at first, but it quickly became a mainstay for the work week.

gnus, but I'm a noob following https://github.com/redguardtoo/mastering-emacs-in-one-year-g... and occasionally re-reading https://www.gnus.org/manual/gnus_toc.html

Mutt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt_(email_client)).

Thunderbird. The encryption is OK. The UI feels a bit outdated though.

Emacs+mu4e. Simple, plain text, programmable, direct link to my editor.

How well does your setup work with HTML mail?

I sometimes need to respond to an HTML mail by editing its contents. The Gmail web interface allows me to do that easily.

Until I can figure out how to do edit an HTML message in emacs, I'm stuck using the browser as my email client.

Here is viewing HTML mail:

https://macowners.club/posts/using-xwidgets-on-macos/

> Until I can figure out how to do edit an HTML message in emacs, I'm stuck using the browser as my email client.

I feel like there are two approaches for this ideally using live-preview:

- Edit the html directly and live preview the result in a buffer to the side. - convert the html with pandoc to org or markdown, edit that, then convert back and see the live preview

For most email I bet either would be sufficent, but maybe more complicated ones you'd need to either improve pandoc or edit the html directly.

mail.app. Does what it says on the tin. Is it The Best? No, but then none are.

1. Thunderbird. 2. Yes.

1. Thunderbird; 2. No.

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