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Opera Mail
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Intuitive user interface
The design of the UI in Opera Mail is clean and intuitive, making for an easy to use client.
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Con
Being discontinued
Opera Mail will be end of lifed per Opera website
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Very efficient search
Be it the subject or the sender, it is very fast and accurate.
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Very limited feature set
Compared to Thunderbird.
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Opera Mail CAN BE set as default email client in Windows 8 & 10
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Sync is slow
Opera tends to be slower on e-mail sync when compared to other popular clients.
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Automagic smart filtering
After a bit of use Opera learns what e-mail belongs in what folder just by previous usage. This makes for a convenient way to have e-mails filtered without having to manually mange every e-mail.
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Does not support 4K monitors
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Free and based on Mozilla code
Opera Mail is completely free to download and use and it is based on Mozilla's code, which is what makes it a bit similar to Thunderbird in looks and function.
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os
Search:
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Postbox
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Pros
5
Cons
1
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Clear interface
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No support forum
Support for paid product has no online forums.
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Forgotten attachment reminders by default
Reminding the user that they forgot to attach the file if they mentioned one in the body of the email is one of the most useful features of any email client and so many don't include this. Postbox is pre-configured to look for certain keywords (attached, CV, spreadsheet, pdf etc) and you can specify your own keywords in addition.
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Blocks tracking gifs
Has the ability to block tracking gifs commonly used for read receipts.
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One Inbox for all accounts
All messages in one place. But you can select to show only messages from each account either.
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Quick Bar for macros
Quick bar allows you to add a variety of content to your message. It will let you reuse URLS in your Sent folder, and autocompletes against canned responses, signatures, and topics.
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Platforms:
MacOS, Windows
Search:
Yes
IMAP:
Yes
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Mailspring
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7
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Con
Can't use without creating a Mailspring ID
There is no need to create a third party ID for an email client. What if the Mailspring closes in the future - can't install a previously downloaded Mailspring software any more to continue using it or access your stored emails?
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Great integration with Gmail
Mailspring has great integration with gmail features and tags.
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Slow updates and bug fixes
It takes months to fix some simple bugs. For example, they can't fix bug with notifications on mac OS from April 2019! Upd: they fixed it after 6-7 months
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Neat UI
The UI is very well designed and neat.
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Unstable, have to keep fixing passwords
You have to keep "updating the password" because it continuously finds it hard to sync with multiple Outlook accounts.
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Read receipts and link tracking
Activity tracking is built into Mailspring so you get notified as soon as contacts read your messages and can follow up appropriately.
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Pro subscription model
To use some features, like contact profiles and link tracking more than a few times a month, you need to pay for a Pro subscription.
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CPU / battery efficient
Mailspring uses a C++ sync engine designed to be as efficient as possible, so you can leave the app running and not see your laptop battery life drain away.
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No addressbook
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Unified inbox
Using a single inbox for all of your email accounts helps you get more done in less time. Mailspring supports every major mail provider—Gmail, iCloud, Office 365, Outlook.com, Yahoo!, and IMAP/SMTP—so you have a single, streamlined command center for all your messages.
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No way to see messages as plain text
And HTML is only optional.
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Snoozing support
You can swipe to archive / snooze messages and specify when you'd like them to resurface in your inbox.
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Does not support Microsoft Exchange
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Unlimited number of accounts
Only in the paid version though.
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Very limited user interface
No way to see the messages as a list, no way to rearrange views.
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No portable windows (.zip) bundle available
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Does not support POP
Just IMAP.
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Does not support multi-user installation (Windows)
But instead installs to the user's home directory.
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UI is sluggish (Windows)
Click and only after a tiny delay (~half second) something happens.
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Mozilla Thunderbird
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Free (as in freedom and beer)
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Development slowed to only focus on stability and security
Mozilla Thunderbird has slowed down its development of features to only focus resources on security and stability.
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Available on Linux, OS X and Windows
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Outdated interface
Thunderbird's interface is very outdated and unpleasant. It feels more like a Windows XP application than like a modern MacOS one.
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Good filtering system
Mozilla Thunderbird offers a flexible filtering system with the ability to set flags and read/unread, as well as sort/assign to new mail directories. There are also numerous plugins available to assist in the filtering.
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Terrible integration with macOS
Simple things - drag/dropping pictures doesn't work, for instance.
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Very reliable
Version after version, Mozilla Thunderbird works as expected.
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Subject lines can (temporarily) disappear from the list
This is sporadic behavior.
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Large assortment of plugins available
Mozilla Thunderbird offers a huge amount of extensions to expand the usability and options of the client.
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Serious bugs
Clicking on a subject line can bring up the wrong email.
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Great flexibility
More options and extended settings than most power users could dream of. Get it working how YOU want.
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Tabs for navigation
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Lightning Calendar and Address Book integration
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Consistent and involving a moderate learning curve
The app design of Mozilla Thunderbird has not changed significantly since its beginning, making its learning curve almost non-existent.
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Send large files easy
Install pCloud plugin for Thunderbird and your files (upto 20 GB free storage included) will be received as download links
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Platforms:
Windows, macOS, Linux
Search:
Yes
IMAP:
Yes
Exchange Support:
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The Bat! Professional
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2
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2
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Only available for Windows
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Fast and lightweight
Has a very small installation footprint.
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It's all about cash - support, new licenses policy, bugs. Not worth buying.
Two programmers coding - this means every release is full of bugs sometimes making this app unusable. Dev version is testing via community.
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Granular control
When you need that setting that does that certain thing, you'll most likely find it in The Bat and nowhere else.
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Windows
Publisher:
Ritlabs
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End-to-end encryption:
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eM Client
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14
Cons
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Many useful options
Such as sorting through categories, etc.
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Extremely slow opening emails
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Free and paid version
It is free for 2 accounts and as long as you don't use it commercially. Paid version comes with support and can handle more than 2 accounts.
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Some syncing errors with Hotmail
Happens from time to time.
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Still actively developed
They've been developing and improving it consistently for years.
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Bloated
Huge size, high memory consumption, uses CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework).
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Calendar inclusive
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Lifetime Upgrades are expensive
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Beautiful interface, customisable to your needs
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Account options are not shown under right click
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It's simple to add new accounts
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Terrrible in handing unread emails
Sorting of unread emails is very useless when compared to other email clients.
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Includes Quick Text
eM Client seamlessly integrated the Quick Text extension that was available on Thunderbird. This makes it easy to quickly auto-insert dynamic text, based on many variables, saving time and the need to tediously repeat manual text replies.
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Poor integration with Yahoo Mail
Integrations with a Yahoo Mail account doesn't always work well in eM Client.
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Chat included
eM Client includes integrated chat, so you don't need another application for chatting with your friends. All common chat services supported (Google chat, Jabber and others).
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Not many options to manage IMAP folders
For example, all emails from Gmail will unnecessary synchronize.
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The only email client which synchronizes Gmail contacts properly
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Interface is too simple
Many options are too hidden and it takes at least 3 clicks to set them up.
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Doesn't replace your attachments with "winmail.dat" files
eM Client sends straight .pdf files for fax messages flawlessly.
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No conditional formatting
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It doesn't store all emails on the disc
It saves space, unlike Thunderbird.
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Only has one nice interface/skin
The other available skins has a 90s feel to them.
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It is still the best in this class
But only because it has no alternative.
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A perfect companion to your Gmail or other webmail you might have
It provides (almost) complete Gmail functionality (calendar, tasks, chat, contacts), while offering advantages of an application: offline use, more e-mail providers in one place, very good design, support, etc.
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Very fast
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Platforms:
Windows, MacOS
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YES
IMAP:
YES
Exchange Support:
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Microsoft Outlook
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It's from Microsoft
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Good built-in calendar
The calendar includes agenda, day, and three-day views.
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Rather buggy
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Integration with calendar and tasks
Quick conversion of a received email to a task with the deadline.
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Crashes frequently
The only issue with Outlook 2017 is that when the Mail folder increases in size, it sometimes crashes for no reason it, causing loss of data.
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Fun to use
clean and smooth experience, very nice and i like it.
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Categorize email IMAP not good
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Smart lookup
Smart lookup is a feature where the Bing search engine is bundled in the app to allow users to automatically search for relevant websites, information and images based on the word highlighted by users, without need to open external browsers. The results will be shown on the right pane of the window.
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Frustrating user experience
The "Clean Interface" approach means that normal and necessary user interface elements have been removed, such as certain scroll bars, and even the "replied to" indicator. This program becomes more frustrating with each new update.
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Priority messages
Microsoft Outlook comes with feature called "Clutter" to filter out incoming email based on the priority of the message set by user. User will be alerted when the high-priority message is incoming, whereas the low-priority message will be put in a separate folder.
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No unique Inbox / global folders
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Attach files from cloud
Microsoft Outlook allow users to directly attach an attachment directly from cloud services without need to download an entire file before attach to the intended e-mail.
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No portable bundle available
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VBA macros
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No aliases
Outlook does not support email aliases other then outlook aliases
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Conditional formatting
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The UI is outdated
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Cloud
can attach files and use cloud, very good.
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Only available for Windows
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Platforms:
MacOS, Windows, Android
Search:
Yes
IMAP:
Yes
Exchange Support:
Yes
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GyazMail
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Cons
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Long term support and development
Goichi Hirakawa, the main developer of GyazMail, has been committed to his project since 2003 and delivers updates regularly.
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Looks old and outdated
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Mail sorting rules
The user can define complex mail sorting rules for incoming and outgoing mail.
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Con
If connection drops or times out, Gyazmail just sits there until you click OK button
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64-bit support
As of v1.6
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Cannot remove attachments to save space
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Native Cocoa API based
GyazMail is a native macOS application, based on the Cocoa API.
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Still a 32-Bit app
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customizable fonts & colors
the mailbox view is very comfortable
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Very good support for Asian languages
GyazMail is a Japanese product, so it has very good support for Asian languages.
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Supports older versions of macOS
GyazMail is available for all versions of Mac OS X / macOS starting with version 10.1
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Freely selectable hard line wrap
In GyazMail you can set a maximum number of characters per line. The program will wrap the lines using hard wrapping on sending. This feature is very useful for newsgroups that require a hard break after 72 characters.
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Supports a big variety of character encodings
Uses Oniguruma regular expression library, which is a very elaborate regular expression engine that supports a big variety of character encodings. This makes very much sense with e-mail, as in an e-mail theoretically any character encoding could be used. Because it is free software (BSD), written in C, very elaborate, stable and still actively maintained it is also used in Atom, Take Command Console, Tera Term, TextMate, Sublime Text, SubEthaEdit, and jq.
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Platforms:
macOS
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Yes
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Mutt
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8
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Terminal based
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Terminal-based
It runs inside the terminal so it doesn't display HTML email, fonts, or graphical elements.
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Small and efficient
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Active development
Even though it was first released in 1995, Mutt still enjoys an active community following it and having new releases constantly.
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It runs inside the terminal
It doesn't display HTML email, fonts, or graphical elements.
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Compose mails in your favorite editor
Edit mails efficiently with an editor you already can work fluently with.
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Highly configurable macros
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Threads emails
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Work with regular expressions
Mails can be filtered, deleted, flagged, etc. with regular expressions which makes mail management very efficient.
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Platforms:
Windows, macOS, Linux
License:
GPLv2+
Technology:
C
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Claws Mail
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Pros
11
Cons
5
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Low resource client
Claws Mail is a low resource e-mail client that is often default in low resource Linux distributions.
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Blocks and freezes all the time
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Open-Source
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Saves passwords in plain format
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Has many plugins for extra functionality
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Too much bloat
some people dont like the simple design of slypheed so they forked it and created claws mail but it has become so bloated since itsbeginnings.
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Traditional user interface
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Saves emails in uncompressed format
This takes more space on the HDD.
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Clean interface with 5 layout variants
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Interface looks old and setup is not easy
The icons as well as the rest of the interface look like an application from the early 90's, with this there is also no easy setup options built in like the more modern e-mail clients.
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Saves emails in uncompressed readable format
Allows one to read archived emails with a text editor.
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Has very strong filters
The filters a much stronger than in thunderbird.
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Saves passwords in encrypted format
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Has many themes
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Also supported on Windows
This makes switching the platform easier.
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Good support for Google's services
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Platforms:
BSD, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, Unix, Windows
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Yes
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Yes
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st
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10
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Low memory usage
st is built to serve as a lightweight terminal emulator. It's very light and doesn't require many resources to run, making it able to run well on older and low-end machines.
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Configuration requires recompiling
Though recompilation takes seconds, knowledge of C header files is required for customization (though it's pretty easy to do for someone who knows how to edit config files).
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Extremely simple architecture
st consists of a single C file that takes seconds to recompile. This also makes it very easy to understand and customize.
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Text is cut off when resizing windows
In the vanilla build, when reducing windows, lines do not wrap, they are cut off. When the window is made large again, some of the text is missing.
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24-bit "True Color" support
st supports color escape sequences for a full 16 million 24-bit color spectrum, instead of the typical 256 colors.
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Crashes when some characters or colored fonts are displayed
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Support for fontconfig
There is full XFT (X Free Type interface library) and fallback font support through fontconfig in st. If your selected font is missing a certain glyph or symbol, but one of your other installed fonts has it, it will be shown.
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No scrollback by default
The best way to perform scrollback is to use a multiplexer (such as tmux, screen, or dvtm) if you want scrollback and reverse-search support.
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Copyfree licensing
Copyfree licensing implies that the user has the freedom to copy, use, modify, and distribute what he/she possesses.
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New features means installing patches
Just to get copy/paste support and scrolling, you have to install patches. And it's not that intuitive for a beginner.
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Image previews
Handles image previews (e.g. in ranger) way better than other terminal emulators.
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Internal border/margins
Doesn't support internal margins.
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Patches are great
The patches on the site are great. Scroll back, hide the mouse, etc.
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Source code edits (aka configs) need to be redone after updating
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Minimalist
Hackable and lightweight.
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Imperfect fontconfig support for CJK characters
It [st] doesn't seem to use CJK fonts provided by fontconfig while other programs use such fonts.
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Blazing fast
it is extremely responsive and fast, even on older computers.
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Clean
The terminal doesn't have any bloated features nobody uses. It is very minimal and extendable.
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MailMate
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11
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5
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Extremely powerful search features
While most email clients support searching content from their To, From and Cc fields, MailMate lets users search down to the different sections of these fields. For example, you can search for the address only, or the name only, or even any one of the embedded headers. Subjects can be searched by prefixes, or by specific words which may be contained within and so on.
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Hard to master
For occasional users who only write emails to friends and loved ones, MailMate's features may be a bit of an overkill since it's designed for power users who spend a lot of time writing and reading/organizing emails.
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Keyboard focused
MailMate is extremely keyboard-focused. Almost every action can be configured to be achieved through a key combination in the settings. With the help of the keyboard shortcuts you can easily navigate through thousands of messages to find the one you need.
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Not so "native" Gmail support
Because it's more IMAP native, and Gmail uses some non-native IMAP stuff (according to MailMate's documentation).
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Markdown support
Markdown is a way to format text quickly using only the keyboard. Different text characters create different text: for example, putting asterisks (*) around a word or group of words will italicize them, while double asterisks (**) will bold that text. Markdown is a basic formatting system that can then be adapted to HTML or other formats.
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Ugly!
Seriously dated UI and looks too much like Apple Mail
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Clean, no-fuss interface
MailMate's UI is very basic. The icons are limited to some default MacOS standard folder images and the interface is very clean and simple, showing only what's needed without any fuss or distracting colours. Instead, opting for a mostly grey interface, with a sprinkle of some other colours here and there.
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No POP or Exchange support
MailMate supports IMAP and IMAP only, there's no POP or Exchange support.
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Smart folders on steroids
you can choose out of tenths of mailheaders (several hundreds including virtual headers) "<header> is (not) in <folder> <header>" operator which enables you to do cool filters each smart folder can have smart subfolders by an user definable key
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A little steep price
$50
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Reliable
Both MailMate's speed and performance are highly reliable.
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Great documentation
The official documentation for MailMate is very thorough and helpful. It covers all options and features in a clear and efficient manner.
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Columns (which have gone missing in Apple Mail in Catalina)
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Faster
Faster the Mail.app specially if you have many emails
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Nice tagging support
One can define tupels of IMAP keywords and tags (which are shown in UI). In case of Gmail one can define triples of IMAP Keywords, Tags, and gmail lables. (in Thunderbird one can only define the tags, whereas the corresponding IMAP keyword is not user-definable.)
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The only mail app compatible with BusyContact in Catalina
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MacOS
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ProtonMail
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5
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8
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Built-in end-to-end encryption
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Javascript-intensive Webmail
Free accounts are required to use Javascript webmail and encryption is done in the browser. Javascript cryptography is harmful for security and should not be used.
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No personal information needed
To create an account you don't need to give any personal information, just choose username, domain, and password. Even the recovery email address is optional.
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Encryption Keys are stored server-side
The keys are generated during account creation. Using your existing keys is prohibited and ProtonMail must store and control the private keys. Encryption cannot be secure unless the user controls the private keys.
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Privacy respecting
User data is protected by strict privacy laws because all servers are located in Switzerland.
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Still lacks some useful features
At the moment, there is no calendar feature and contact management is quite poor. They will, however, start to work on it.
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Open Source
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Ties to US Investors
ProtonMail takes money from US Investors
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Mobile apps
Apps for Android and iOS available.
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No IMAP and SMTP support for basic accounts
Basic accounts are restricted to the Protonmail web client. Support for IMAP and SMTP is available with a paid subscription only, and as such with basic accounts it is not possible to send and receive email with external applications.
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Overly expensive for desktop support
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Requires phone number for login
If you sign up over Tor or a VPN, it will require email or phone number verification. Email verification is disabled if you use an email that isn't from Google or Outlook.
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Not fully Open Source
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Free tier:
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Canary Mail
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6
Cons
6
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Multiple Signatures for Multiple Accounts including ALIASES
You can assign your default signature to an ALIAS for the same account or create an altogether new one.
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Missing mainstream features
No functionality for user-defined Gmail message-tagging, or moving/copying to IMAP folders. Might be acceptable in a free app, but not in one with premium pricing.
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No personal data stored on servers
No access tokens, passwords, attachments or email itself is stored on Canary servers.
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Buggy
It adds random pins to old emails which then stay on top of the inbox list
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Seamlessly integrates with iOS verion
Gone are the days of manual setup of phone email clients! Canary Mail syncs not just your accounts but all of your settings and even signatures on iCloud.
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Poor handling of new emails
You sometimes need to wait very long before your email actually gets delivered.
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Local email database is encrypted on disk
Canary stores your local email database encrypted.
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Windows moves randomly
When you create a new email, the new windows is often misplaced so that you have to move it to reach the "Send" button.
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Gorgeous and intuitive
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Poor text editing capabilities
The cursor is laggy so you're better off using keyboard shortcuts.
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Pretty Good Privacy or PGP built-in
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Show NO show
It'll show a new email on a counter, but you're not able to view them.
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Platforms:
MacOS, iOS
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Yes
End-to-end encryption:
Yes
Exchange Support:
IMAP only
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Spark
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Horrible privacy policy
Sends statistical data to several services known for bad privacy policies (Google, Facebook), also there's no way to opt out. Automatically creates an acount with the first address entered and subscribes you to their newsletter. Stores credentials for your email accounts on their servers. Stores your emails on their servers to push them to your devices. Server infrastructure seems to be located in the US.
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Custom quick swipe features
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Doesn't support many services
Many services such as Spam filters, Pocket, and other apps are not supported.
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Free
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Doesn't show the counts of emails next to the folders
On the Mac platform will show +999 for the folder that contains more than 1000 emails. On the iPhone, the platform will not show the counts next to the folder unless they are new emails.
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Robust customization options
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Syncs across devices
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Unified inbox
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Free snooze options
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Platforms:
Android, iOS, Mac OS
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Yes
IMAP:
Yes
Exchange Support:
Yes
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Boxy
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Only supports Gmail accounts
No exchange email support or importing of any other e-mail services mail.
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Native Google Inbox for Mac
Boxy is simply a wrapper around Google Inbox. People who are used to Inbox's web interface will feel right at home with Boxy.
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Surfaces important information from messages
If an email contains pictures, flight information, reservation at a restaurant, attachments, links, dates, phone numbers and other information that the application recognizes, it will surface that information in its main view. These items can be viewed and interacted with without having to open the message itself. It allows finding and taking action on the important email information quickly.
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Intelligent categorization
Inbox tries automatically bundling similar messages together. For example, Inbox will create bundles for travel information, receipts, promotions as well as group messages temporally. It enables also managing these bundles of messages together - they can all be swiped away together.
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Platforms:
MacOS
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Yes
IMAP:
Yes
Exchange Support:
No
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Airmail
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11
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Clean interface
Airmail has a very clean and modern interface. On the left side of the screen are the folders (inbox, starred, draft, sent, snooze, trash) and on the right side the email threads for the folder currently being viewed.
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Unreliable
There are many issues/bugs with different accounts, including Gmail and iCloud.
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Automatically syncs settings between devices
If you are using Airmail in different devices (either MacOS or iOS), you can automatically sync settings through iCloud.
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Serious sync problems
On some IMAP accounts, there are a number of serious sync problems, which otherwise work fine with Apple Mail.
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Fast and easy setup process
Even though there's a huge amount of settings available, it's quite easy to get used to each of them and the setup process is very fast and easy.
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Search is buggy and not very powerful
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Consistent interface between devices
Airmail is available for both iOS and Mac, for people who use Apple's mobile devices. And the interface between both platforms is quite consistent, making it easy to seamlessly jump between one and another.
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Not free
Paid version only.
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Integrates with multiple third-party services
Airmail can integrate with multiple Cloud services for syncing, creating backups, adding tasks and more. Some of these services include Dropbox, Box, Fantastical, 2DO, Todoist, Wunderlist etc.
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iOS app requires a subscription to enable incoming mail notifications
The iOS app now requires a subscription to enable incoming mail notifications. This makes the iOS app very unattractive and there's little point installing the Mac desktop client for users who want to sync accounts between devices.
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Support for VIP folders
VIP folders are for particular senders which you always want to read even when you are ignoring email. The way it works is that you add different senders as VIPs and emails from those senders will always be surfaced on top of everything else.
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Copying/moving mails unreliable
Doesn't work most of the time even though the operation is reported as successful. Even has lost emails when moving. Support was not too much use either.
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Extremely customizable
Instead of forcing the user to work with their email the way Airmail developers would want, it allows the user to customize and make the email client work the way they want because of the sheer flexibility of the application. There's a lot of settings available in Airmail with which you can customize almost every aspect and functionality of the app. In fact, it's very easy to get lost in them and spend a lot of time tweaking and customizing everything to your liking.
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Rather expensive
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Supports Gmail shortcuts
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Inability to turn off auto-creation of labels
Version 3 does not allow it while version 2 did.
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Multiple ways of sorting emails
There are multiple ways to sort emails with Airmail. You can sort by unread, starred, attachments, conversations, dates, and many more criteria. You can even combine different criteria together. Using these filters makes it extremely easy to quickly find any email you are looking for.
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UI is a little busy
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Always keep the inbox clean
Airmail allows users to snooze an email until a defined moment (a few hours later, tomorrow, next weekend, next week, etc.), allowing you to process every email immediately and to always keep the inbox clean.
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Has the "slow typing" bug
When composing an email, Airmail can respond very slowly to keystrokes. Customer service refuses to acknowledge this problem, responding that it's "not real" - which is a very odd response, to simply refuse to acknowledge the customer's experience.
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Supports trackpad gestures
Airmail is able to use trackpad gestures for achieving and deleting mail items.
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Platforms:
MacOS, iOS
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Yes
IMAP:
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Exchange Support:
Yes
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Mailbird 2.0
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16
Cons
7
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Unified Inbox
This allows you to funnel all emails from all accounts into one unified folder, so you don't have to move between different accounts.
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Mailbird does not support moving emails between accounts
It's a disaster when you need to transfer all mails into a new account but you can't.
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Excellent UI/UX
The UI looks simple but is customizable. UX is also simple and easy to use.
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No updates
Program seems to be 'end of life' as since December 2021 (it's now almost July 2022) no updates were issued :-(
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Undo send
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Search is slow
Searching within all your mail takes quite some time.
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Free and paid versions
Users who only need to use the basic features of the app have a free version available, though it does limit to only 1 account. There is a paid Mailbird Pro version that does extend functionality and allows for unlimited accounts but it does cost $1.00 a month or $45.00 as a one time fee.
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Not possible to rename the accounts
You always see a mail address as the account name, it's not possible to change that.
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Apps that extend functionality
Mailbird 2.0 supports separate apps that can extend the programs functionality such as Sunrise Calendar, which allows one to add multiple calendars in one view or Evernote which allows for easy not taking and sharing.
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No mail sorting possible
It's not possible to sort the mail list, so you will always see the mail 'date sorted'.
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Clear interface
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Bloated
Huge size, high memory consumption, uses CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework).
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App side bar
This allows you to have one layout with your navigation bar, message list, email convos and productivity apps in view at once so you can work your email and productivity tools synchronously.
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No spam filter
Doesn't have spam filter.
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Contacts manager
This allows you to easily manage all your email contacts with all critical details in one place. Create groups too. All your contacts in one place and synced with your different email contact providers.
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Snooze
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Unlimited email accounts
There is no limit to the number of email accounts you can manage from Mailbird.
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Attachment quick preview
Allows you to preview attachments selected in an email and hit the 'spacebar' to view them rather than having to download it and open a file.
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Import feature
This allows you to easily import all your emails from your previous email client to Mailbird.
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Email speed reader
Helps you scan through lengthy emails to get the important parts.
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Touchscreen support
Mailbird 2.0 has touchscreen support for tablets and other touch screen Windows devices which makes it easy to control no matter what kind of Windows device is being used.
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Universal filters
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Dark theme
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Windows
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YES
IMAP:
YES
Exchange Support:
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Mail.app
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6
Cons
7
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Integration (with other Apps/Hardware)
One thing Apple does well is to integrate its apps and hardware. The mail app is no exception. If you must be in the hermit kingdom, at least take advantage of the (often excellent) features provided.
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No option to snooze emails
You can not snooze emails to view later. This makes it hard to keep the inbox clean at all times since you have to read every email and choose to delete or keep them the moment they arrive to do so.
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Will probably be enough for a sizable chunk of users
Since it's the built-in Mac email client and is quite complete feature-wise, most users will not really need any other third-party applications out there. Mail.app should be enough for their needs.
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Missing lots of advanced features
Out of the box, Mail.app may not have as many features as some other options. This can be mitigated with plugins though. But that is not a perfect solution since third-party plugins may not be very reliable in the long run.
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Easily annotate pictures or sign documents inside the client itself
Mail.app has powerful markup tools which let users add annotations to images or even sign documents they got through email without ever leaving the client.
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Really bad reliability
Database engine gets stuck consuming 100% of one core; crashes; a 40GB log file has been spotted.
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Smart folders on steroids
You can choose out of tenths of mailheaders (several hundreds including virtual headers) "<header> is (not) in <folder> <header>" operator which enables you to do cool filters Each smart folder can have smart subfolders by an user definable key
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Updates may break plugins
Apple is known to make API changes to Mail.app when updating which break a lot of plugins. This can be very annoying for users whose workflow heavily relies on plugins, since they have to wait for plugin developers to make the changes needed to fix any issues brought by the update.
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Shows threaded view with snippets in middle panel
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Poor performance for some users on El Capitan
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Can be easily extended
If the basic features inside Mail.app are not enough, it can easily be extended through plugins to add new features.
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Ugly
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Poor calendar integration in exchange mode
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Platforms:
MacOS
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Yes
IMAP:
Yes
Exchange Support:
Yes
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Hiri
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7
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1
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Dead product
No release in well over a year, no support, and a permanent "never to be repeated" offer. This product is now looking like a con itself.
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Simple and modern UI/UX design
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Not free
You have to subscribe to a paid plan to use it.
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Cannot unsubscribe or cancel service
Cancellation requests go unanswered but the yearly invoices continue to arrive and credit card is charged.
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No POP3 support
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No IMAP support, only for Microsoft Exchange
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Platforms:
Linux, Windows, Mac
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Yes
IMAP:
No
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