Email Client Alternatives

Users recommend and compare various email clients as alternatives to Mail.app and others like Thunderbird, MailMate, Mailspring, and Spark, highlighting features for power users such as fast search, GPG support, and open-source options.

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microtonal Mar 19, 2014 View on HN

If not Mail.app, what about notmuch with one of the supported clients ;).

grinich Feb 17, 2016 View on HN

Come try N1? It's also open source! :)https://nylas.com/n1(I work at Nylas.)

aniketh May 23, 2010 View on HN

Have you looked at mailplane http://mailplaneapp.com/ ?

boplicity Nov 10, 2022 View on HN

I've tried a few with this feature, not totally happy with any of them.Em ClientMissiveMailspring

JetSpiegel Jul 17, 2014 View on HN

Just use Thunderbird. Even Outlook and Apple Mail are better.

throw37388 Aug 9, 2021 View on HN

Any good email client alternatives?

dimgl Jul 7, 2016 View on HN

Mail.app is fine for me... What am I missing in an email client that Mail.app doesn't provide?

sirn Sep 24, 2018 View on HN

If you're looking for a more traditional email client, I'd recommend MailMate[1]. It's a no-fuss email client designed for power user (GPG support, Markdown support, advanced filtering, text-only mode, etc.) I've been using it for half a year with Fastmail (personal) and Gmail (work) and pretty happy with it.The author also maintains a blog[2] where he post quirks about several IMAP implementations. For example, Yahoo IMAP[3] or Gmail labels[4]. The app itself also handled

drcongo Feb 21, 2022 View on HN

I use Readdle's Spark as an email client and find it does a much better job of this than Gmail. Plus you don't have to fight that horrific gmail interface.

PawgerZ Jun 4, 2024 View on HN

It's not for everyone, but I have been having great success with Thunderbird for a mail client. Maybe give it a try and see if you like it.