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

  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    513·
    15 hours ago

    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.

    • marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      101·
      15 hours ago

      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.

      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        52·
        15 hours ago

        … 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.

        • marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          51·
          15 hours ago

          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

            • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              4 hours ago

              My understanding with Tuta is that you cannot configure it to work with a third party desktop email client though, you are locked in to using theirs. You can’t configure a Tuta email address to work with mutt or something for example I believe as there is no regular imap/pop like there are for services that don’t use E2EE, or services that have some form of bridge for that like Proton did.

              Maybe I am misinformed though.