Hello Lemmy, I would like to know how do you all read email.

  • What email clients (or web UI) do you use? And on what platform?
  • What is something you don’t like from the client?
  • What is something you like from the client?
  • What is something you don’t like from the email service?
  • What is something you like from the email service?.
  • Is there a feature you would like your client implemented?
  • Do you have any particular method or workflow of going through and extensive inbox?

If you have any other comment it would be appreciated as well.

On my computer I use the web interface and on my phone I use Thunderbird. One thing I do is to delete or archive any message that does not need any action, and it has been a blessing, my emails are so much easier to go through.

That’s all, thank you in advance.

  • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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    12 days ago
    1. Thunderbird Stable on Desktop (want to figure out nightly tho), TB Beta on Android.
    2. Hard to say, as I only ever used gmail as “alternative”. On that, the TB search on a gmail is worse than gmail’s own client’s search.
    3. Compared to gmail, that it’s much less corpo and much more customizable.
    4. My provider (me) has no password reset flow. I have to manually generate a new pw for an account with doveadm (postfix uses saslauth with dovecot for auth) and edit /etc/dovecot/users.
    5. Basically, I’m the most privacy preserving and flexible provider you can think of. Except that the gov and pigs now just have to question my domain to get my address for any email I send. But oh well.
    6. Skins. So it can eg. look like Outlook. Would help me switch my grandparents from M$ to FOSS. My grandpa is of the “it doesn’t work, so an immediate screaming meltdown follows”-type, and my grandma survives solely on knowing which button is where, because she’s almost blind.
    7. All services have their own address, so I can block whole services and default others to eg. spam. Helps me keep the traffic low, and know where an email slipped to spammers/scammers. Though, that never happened in the 1-2 years I’m using it. The only spam is PayPal and Twitch (will change that) telling me that one of my 10 or so subscriptions is going to renew soon.