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Lots of people griping about Thunderbird! Can someone recommend an e-mail client which does the following:

1. Supports GPG signing and decryption

2. Allows plain text views and composition to be set as default

I use ThunderBird for those two specific reasons, and I'd be fine trying something new too.

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Some more features that I like:

+ Bottom posting can be set as default.

+ Selected text are automatically quoted when hitting reply.

+ Many add-ons and utilities are available: DKIM verifier, Mail Hop viewer, Mail Agent viewer, etc.

I tried to find an alternative but I couldn't either.

On Linux? Evolution does this pretty well. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution

I've used many, but that's ancient history. For a long time I used webmail and only Thunderbird in recent years. News of an interface revamp were scary, but so far no serious breakage. I guess people's complaints are about very heavy mailboxes or, most likely IMAP.

That is a different way of thinking: email as sort of a database of personal information, integrated with calendar and contact manager. If you're like me, only mail and not a lot of it, Thunderbird will be probably fine.

mutt does both things. I've been using it for years. The learning curve is certainly steep, and being in the terminal all the time might throw people off, but it does what you're asking for.

I've been happily using Gnus for this and many other things for many years now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnus

Not a GUI, but I am using neomutt which requires a bit of config and time to get used to. Thunderbird kept crashing for me every time i try to sign an email but i have no problems with neomutt.

I gave up and mostly use the Fastmail web UI. It's substantially better than Thunderbird and just about every other email client I've tried. But of course this isn't any help if you're not a Fastmail customer.

This is not everyone-friendly answer, but Mutt does it. To the second point it's not even optional for composing. Unless you write/use some markdown to text/html.

Thunderbird has a very useful feature: simplified incoming html view. It strips remote images and js, while keeping the minimum to make messages readable.

Responses can use plain text.

I really liked Mutt. I used it for one or two years, a long time ago.

You can pipe text/html to w3m/elinks to get the same results. Well, almost the same, some e-mails are not that well designed. I still love mutt, it's so rapid and it works almost the same when I first used it, over 20 years ago.

<https://pep.software/thunderbird/>

Alpine works great. Or do you want a GUI?

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