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
    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.