I just can’t find a decent email client that looks like it’s from the last 20 years. Geary and Evolution both appear to be pretty modern but something about using Gmail with a Yubikey just doesn’t work and neither of them will connect to my account. Both on Fedora and OpenSUSE. Thunderbird works but it’s so old fashioned and Betterbird doesn’t look much better. What’s everyone else using?

  • Hellmo_luciferrari@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    I was using Thunderbird, but I have had a number of issues with it. Crashing seems to happen whether I use the Flatpak or install from AUR.

    I have switched back to using web clients for my mail for the time being.

    • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      I have never had thunderbird crash. Not questioning what you say but perhaps its sonsthing else? Did u try deleting thubderbird data and starting fresh ?

      • Hellmo_luciferrari@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        I will likely go back and try that. I however know just like in other email clients, if I have thousands of emails per account its bound to be slower. I did clean out each box. I plan to use Thunderbird again once I clear out all of those emails and consolidate to one email address.

        I will have to investigate which directories to purge.

        • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          My inbox has upward of 17,000 emails and thunderbird doesn’t have any issues with it. So it should be okay with it.

          • Hellmo_luciferrari@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            Guess I will have to play around with it again. I never really investigated the crashes. Just moved away from it as email isn’t as important to my personal life as it is to my work life.

    • ses hat@lemmy.ml
      3·
      4 months ago

      I am using debias as os , and never had a problem with thunderbird, did you used recently? I am not against web, but i manage 5 emails so no way the web is a option for me. Also i start to use the rss from thunder and is cool.

      • Hellmo_luciferrari@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        It was within the past week or 2. I completely understand. Thunderbird is awesome. It is likely an issue with my inbox sizes for the 3+ inboxes I have connected.

    • barcaxavi@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 months ago

      I’m using it on Windows at work and I was also surprised how often it just gets stuck. Deleting the database did help for some time, but then it came back every time I’m sending an email.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      I wonder if it has to to with the email provider or something? It isn’t fast for me but it gets the job done and is stable and predictable even with thousands of emails

      • Hellmo_luciferrari@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        Begrudgingly 2 of the 3 are Google email addresses, and 1 is a Microsoft email address. I will however be ditching both of those providers for something a bit more privacy focused soon and making those addresses burner addresses.