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Email client for Linux (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have been looking for an email client on Linux after being tired of Gmail and Outlook web clients.

I had Thunderbird installed on my system and thought I'd give it a spin. I set up POP for my email accounts and it worked fantastic... For a total of 2 hours, after which I realised that searching in Thunderbird is simply not going to work for me. I need to search by attachment name and sometimes even by text inside attachment and unfortunately Thunderbird can't do that (I think I tried an extension too but it made the UI super clunky to the point that I couldn't even understand how to navigate it anymore).

Does Betterbird or any other email client fix this problem? I'm willing to try other options if they are FOSS.

Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've been having a grand time with sylpheed.

Mostly because thunderbird changed its presentation layout and i took it personally. Plus sylpheed is lighter weight.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Last stable version is over 7 years old. Ouch...

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Never heard of it, will take a look thanks

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've always liked Thunderbird. Geary is also nice. Not sure if it can attachment search.

You can filter messages with attachment on Thunderbird btw

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Yes but I can't search by the name of the attachment. Unfortunately that's a deal breaker for me. I need it to search the Content-Type field at the very least and I don't think it can do that without an extension

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You can use the FiltaQuilla extension to add content-type as search category. It's a pretty powerful yet straight forward extension

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