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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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
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-Typefield at the very least and I don’t think it can do that without an extensionYou can use the FiltaQuilla extension to add content-type as search category. It’s a pretty powerful yet straight forward extension
I didn’t know about this extension. I will try it. Thanks
You may find what you need here or there.
Like @a14o@feddit.org I would personaly recommend the power of neomutt and notmuch, but it’s not a GUI option if that’s what you’re looking for.
Where indexing and searching mails is concerned, notmuch is the best I’ve seen. Do note that this is not an e-mail client, it only indexes, tags and searches (following the “UNIX philosophy” of doing one job well).
I personally use it with neomutt as a mail user agent, which is almost certainly not what you want. Notmuch supports other clients but they’re all pretty arcane.
So this is not a recommendation, just a glimpse into advanced e-mail setups I guess.
sudo apt install claws-mail
Fast, reliable, insanely functional - weird formats. Yes it has a calendar, works great.
Over ten years ago I was looking for a foss email client and I was really hesitant on claws because the interface looked ridiculously dated, but settled on it anyway because it seemed the most appropriate for me out of what was available.
The interface has received zero facelifts since then, but it’s grown to become endearing because the software has been fantastic and reliable for years. I don’t need a lot of bells and whistles in an email client, so maybe it’s missing features others might want, but it does everything I care about and needs minimal setup.
maybe evolution is what you’re searching for
Betterbird? Unsure if it can search Attachments am sure it shows attachments on top it’s a fork of thunderbird
I use Betterbird as my main email client so I tried out the attachment searching. Searching by attachment name seemed to work well, but it doesn’t look like it searches for the text within the documents, at least not for PDFs. Not sure if there’s like an OCR extension or anything that would do it, but yeah just the base Betterbird install doesn’t do it as far as I can see.
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.
Any time I want to watch my emails I just go to the web ui for it. I doubt any 3rd party client will ever come close to what google and Microsoft offer for their own email accounts.
I’d prefer not to go to their Web UIs because of how much tracking is present on those sites (adding rules and filters to ublock origin for Gmail nearly killed me). I’d prefer a FOSS option.
… they already have your emails. Not only that, but just about everything else they could possibly want to know about you.
Unless you plan on moving to a more private provider I wouldn’t worry about that.
Agreed, and I do plan to move to other providers. I should add that I find a desktop client convenient, and I don’t mind the Thunderbird UI at the moment. Unfortunately, lack of a single feature breaks it for me
