I’m tried of how terrible Gmail is. Id like an email client with folders or categories. If it can sort them automatically (like how Googles now defunct inbox app used to) that would be even better.
Edit: in a couple days or whenever the activity on this post slows down. I will update this post with a list of the most recommended email app.
Edit2:
Results are in: Number is the amount of people who specifically mentioned it.
- FairMail 6
- K-9 5
- Spark 2
- ProtonMail
- Re:work
- Nine
- Tutanota
- Canary Mail
- Aqua
K-9 Mail is my favorite. It will.be renamed in future to Thunderbird, because the developer is now working for them 😊
He is ? Awesome! If we could get a full mobile thunderbird app that would be epic.
Thunderbird made a blog post about it 🐱
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No, it’s a regular email client.
Both require special clients.I currently use Thunderbird for Protonmail and don’t see any issues. I think you may need to have a paid plan though.
https://proton.me/support/protonmail-bridge-clients-windows-thunderbird
I don’t use them, so I don’t know 🙃
Fairemail is pretty much the default android client. Open source, full featured, not bad on the eyes. It just fucking works without hassles.
If anything, the settings are too feature packed, it can take a while to tweak everything if you really want it customized
Thanks for the recommendation. I’m tired of the official app and will try this out instead!
Agreed. Lots of features - definately worth the effort though.
I installed it. Gonna try it out and see. You’re the second person to recommend it.
When not using ProtonMail, I use FairEmail: “Fully featured, open source, privacy oriented email app for Android.”
These are the guys who pluralize one of ‘traffic’, ‘help’ or ‘email’ with an S like it’s not stupid?
Another vote for FairMail. I’ve been using it for a few years at this point and never had a reason to look for an alternative.
I’ll probably give K-9 a try when it eventually rebrands as Thunderbird though.
Does FairMail have automatic categorisation (like Gmail / Inbox)?
Experimental feature
I miss Inbox
It was so much better than Gmail
Me too. Of all the Google products that they cancelled, inbox hurt the most.
Spark. Absolutely adore it. Once I tried it, I’ve never gone back.
Do you like it’s new interface?
I like the Smart 1.0 implementation.
2.0 just hides away a lot of important messages. I have 5 email IDs due to work and other stuff, and I CANNOT figure out how that interface works.
The 1.0 works perfectly.
I’m absolutely agree. I really tried to get used to the new interface, but its a pain.
Also, the new Windows version lacks support of Exchange, and it messes up your accounts on another devices.
Still love it. Not the windows version.
I prefer the original Mail and Calendar app that came with Windows 10.
But Microsoft being Microsoft, abandoned their own app dev platform to essentially just make a web app instead. Apparently, native apps are just too much to ask for these days. 🙄
Nine
Been using for a long time because of the rich text email options. But it is awesome all around. My pick for best of the best.
You’re the second person that’s recommended nine so I guess I’ll give it a shot. Do you know if they collect data from your emails?
Is it still being developed? It looks like the last update was back in April last year.
- On Android: K9Mail. By far the best.
- On Linux: ThunderBird. It’s bloated like an obese whale on cortisone but I’ve yet to see a better client.
How is K9 better than FairEmail?
Agreed. FairEmail is my goto choice. They’re both open source and on F-Droid.
FairEmail does have a $9 license you can buy to add extra features, but even without the license, I found it to be a nicer app than K9.
Fairemail on android. Thunderbird on pc. K9Mail on android is also good but I prefer fairemail
I use the default Gmail client but i highly recommend K9-Mail.
I just wish Android had a nice email client that was material you and material 3 like Gmail and also wasn’t Gmail
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You are responding to a post on an Android community with recommendations for macOS and Linux mail clients, without any mention of an Android mail client.
Sorry! I’m still learning how to use this. I’ll delete my comment
“Id like an email client with folders or categories.”
I tried a few other email clients to see if I could ditch the gmail one (years ago, admittedly), and where those clients fell short for me was they didn’t support labels, only folders. Multiple labels can apply to one email, but an email can only belong in one folder.
Does anyone know if things have changed, whether third party clients now support gmail labels?
There are email clients that do support labels (like em mail client), but I haven’t found one where that actually syncs with the server. As far as I can tell, IMAP does support labels, but maybe the label concept isn’t the same so it doesn’t translate? Maybe it works over exchange as a protocol, but I haven’t tried.
Basically, I think it’s a limitation is the (by now) rather old protocol that’s still being used, and the lack of (well supported) alternatives?
Note that em client sports Gmail’s labels just fine, and syncs them properly, but that part only works with Gmail. Which kind of defeats the purpose of trying to ditch Gmail, but wanting labels and not folders.
k9 which will be become thunderbird mobile in the future
