Slant community chat on Discourse| 6 Recommended Products | Recommendations | Platforms | Exchange Support | IMAP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 Mozilla Thunderbird· · · | 6 | 0 | Linux, Mac, Windows | Yes | Yes |
| #2 N1· · · | 1 | 0 | Linux, Mac, Windows | Yes | Yes |
| #3 eM Client· · · | 5 | 0 | Windows | YES | YES |
| #4 Postbox· · · | 1 | 0 | MacOS | Yes | Yes |
| #5 Mailbird 2.0· · · | 2 | 0 | – | – | – |
| #6 The Bat! Professional· · · | 0 | 0 | – | – | – |
Pro Very reliable
Version after version, Mozilla Thunderbird works as expected.
Pro 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.
Con Outdated interface
Thunderbird's interface is very outdated and unpleasant. It feels more like a Windows XP application than like a modern MacOS one.
Con 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.
Con Terrible integration with macOS
Simple things - drag/dropping pictures doesn't work, for instance.
Pro Great design
Simple, easy to use, easy to learn user interface.
Pro Extensible
Currently there are plugins for GitHub integration, Templates, and Translation, and the potential for many more to come. It's built on top of Chromium so making plugins for it will not only be easy for Chrome app and extension developers, but it means that it has the potential to use Chrome plu...
Con A lot of RAM memory used
This email client uses a lot of RAM (random access memory) - actually using more than Chrome (albeit with a lot of tabs open).
Pro 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.
Con Poor integration with Yahoo Mail
Integrations with a Yahoo Mail account doesn't always work well in eM Client.
Pro 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.
Pro One Inbox for all accounts
All messages in one place. But you can select to show only messages from each account either.
Con Way too expensive
Currently the price is at 45€. That's ridiculous for an E-Mail client. The design alone is pretty but neither does that or the functionality in any way justify the pricing.
Pro 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.
Pro Free and paid version
Users who only need to use the basic features of the app have a free version available, though it does limit to only 3 sync'd accounts. There is a paid version that does extend functionality and allows for unlimited account but it does cost $1.00 a month or $45.00 as a one time fee.
Con Loses messages
It seems not to catch all files when importing. Often they only arrive days later. Or do not appear in the shared IN-box at all!
Con Poor contact management
Only recently you can import from Gmail. But that's about it.
Pro Inbox Analyzer does a fairly good job
The Inbox Analyzer, which organizes your newsletters and contacts using folders and filters works quite well. There might be some mislabeling from time to time - a friend gets labeled as newsletter etc.
Con It's hard to use
Setting it up and then learning to use it can be a painful process.
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