I have been using KDE for a while, while I like many features I am looking for suggestions to the default email client:

Kmail - completely unusable for me and the only one which could maybe be integrated with kontacts, it could not receive mails from IMAP or pop or would receive only sometimes

Geary - good but too minimal, I need at least some kind of contact list and mailing lists feature, maybe this integrates with gnome contacts? I couldn’t find anything in settings

  • @steeznson@lemmy.world
    1•3 months ago

    Has anyone got gmail or outlook working via SMTP in the past couple years? I was using the former with emacs gnus and then it started demanding additional auth that I couldn’t provide via a simple file, then in the past 6 months the latter stopped letting me log in.

    My ~/.gnus file was like this -

    setq user-mail-address "my.name@hotmail.co.uk"
      user-full-name "My Name")

(setq gnus-select-method
      '(nnimap "outlook"
           (nnimap-address "imap-mail.outlook.com")
           (nnimap-server-port 993)
           (nnimap-stream ssl)))

(setq smtpmail-smtp-server "smtp-mail.outlook.com"
      smtpmail-smtp-service 587
      gnus-ignored-newsgroups "^to\\.\\|^[0-9. ]+\\( \\|$\\)\\|^[\"]\"[#'()]")

    ~/.authinfo (encrypted with gpg) -

    machine imap-mail.outlook.com login my.name@hotmail.co.uk password **** port 993
machine smtp-mail.outlook.com login my.name@hotmail.co.uk password **** port 587

    I think I might need to start hosting my own email server because every authentication option on these services requires some extra step or fingerprinting that gnus can’t provide. Maybe I should give up and try Thunderbird to see if that would work.

    • @steeznson@lemmy.world
      2•3 months ago

      Ok going to try Thunderbird tomorrow and if it works then I’ll see if I can reverse engineer whatever it does into gnus

  • DotdevEnglish
    33•3 months ago

    Thunderbird is the usual recommendation for an email client. So try that

  • @n2burns@lemmy.ca
    3•3 months ago

    IMHO, you should consider doing more troubleshooting on Kmail. I’ve never used it personally, but from my understanding, it’s a stable program and shouldn’t have problems doing the basics of email, like you’re reporting.

    • gian English
      1•3 months ago

      The problem of kmail is the underlying subsystem that is evertything other than stable.

  • ZweiEuro
    2•3 months ago

    I am A big fan of Vivaldi and its built-in email client ^^ Works like a charm for me.

    • Random DentEnglish
      7•3 months ago

      For me it’s handy because I have multiple email accounts so I can just open Betterbird and check them all at once without having to log into several different pages.

  • Colonel Panic
    2•3 months ago

    with every reinstall, i go hunting for decent calendar- and email-apps. always go back to Evolution eventually

  • @AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    Kmail, Thunderbird, Evolution. That’s pretty much it.

    There’s always some weird niche client somewhere but it won’t be a hidden gem. Although I guess you can always use Pine (or rather Alpine nowadays) if you want to appear ubergeeky.

  • @BCsven@lemmy.ca
    1•3 months ago

    If you arena opposed to GNOME, you add your online accounts and it integrates them into evolution mail, calendar and contacts. And also Gdrive becomes a mounted folder if you add Google account.