Best replacement for the Mail App?

ubersonic · 11 Oct 2024 at 19:29

I think I'm finally at my wits end of having to uninstall the "new" Outlook App every time I want to read my email just to stop it hijacking the Windows Mail App.

I can't be the only person on here to have more than one email address, so what mail clients are everyone else using these days?

f666 · 11 Oct 2024 at 20:26

Thunderbird... Still

sniperone · 12 Oct 2024 at 21:26

Second that . Thunderbird is the way to go as the new outlook is truly awful

dave_beast · 13 Oct 2024 at 23:57

Thunderbird, it just works

unwashed potato! · 14 Oct 2024 at 21:47

i use postbox. any reason i should go to thunderbird? especially given postbox is built off thunderbird.

f666 · 15 Oct 2024 at 11:19

unwashed potato! said:
i use postbox. any reason i should go to thunderbird? especially given postbox is built off thunderbird.

Not particularly, you can do a comparison if you wish.

.Griff. · 15 Oct 2024 at 11:45

Another Thunderbird user (for a long time) here.

Buffalo2102 · 15 Oct 2024 at 14:52

em client was my favourite client while on Windows. Only two email addresses for the free version but I thought it was well worth the subscription.

Thunderbird now I'm permanently on Linux. Evolution is a decent option too.

unwashed potato! · 15 Oct 2024 at 18:32

fraseredwards said:
Not particularly, you can do a comparison if you wish.

well i was asking others if any reason thunderbird is better. they are very simliar from what i can tell, with postbox imo have a much cleaner look. but curious why everyone suggest thunderbird over postbox.

tamzzy · 15 Oct 2024 at 18:57

The old mail app was semi decent, and with no ads
Had the outlook (new) app force install and taken over the mail app and always displaying the top "mail" as an ad.

Nope
Uninstalled immediately
I will do without the app then

MatsyLR · 15 Oct 2024 at 21:03

Maybe I'm just stupid but what's the benefits to using thunderbird/k9 instead of just using Gmail for example?

wesley · 21 Oct 2024 at 08:57

Thunderbird/K9 is an app that relies on IMAP or POP3 , also caching emails offline so you can view emails or write up a draft and it'll send automatically once the connection restored. Good for the laptop on the move IE, train, tube or plane etc.

Gmail is a web based mail. Very different