What OS are you switching to? If it’s Windows, then stick with Thunderbird. I have yet to find a better alternative. If you’re switching to Linux, then there’s a whole mess of them to choose from.
I like Evolution and Kmail. Though not as lean as most suggestions in this thread, they are pretty feature-rich and I didn’t find either to be particularly resource hungry.
Switching to Linux from OSX and it seems between Claws and Thunderbird, I might keep TB and see how it fares on RAM.
I use thunderbird, but might switch to claws after reading this. Seems to be pretty popular:
Thanks for the link.
Perhaps this is a Mac thing but Thunderbird on Mac was hitting ~45% on the CPU. Does it clog up on linux?
CPU isn’t too bad for me, but RAM is pretty bad, to the point that I don’t like leaving it open in the background.
I used to use Claws and it is pretty good if the lack of HTML support isn’t a problem for you, I can recommend it. I’m now using Thunderbird again (work uses HTML w/CSS emails) and I have the same issue as you, I don’t like leaving it open in the background because of the RAM issues. I ended up buying more RAM recently to prevent OOM crashes.
Along this vein, i 've been usinbg mutt, which is good but i still don’t love it. anyone use a non-mutt terminal main client?
Alpine easy to config
thanks all! i will try alpine as soon as i have a laptop again! my thinkpad stopped turning on yesterday, so, sorry for the late response
AERC is pretty good.
Depending on what you don’t love about mutt, I’ve used alpine on and off throughout the years and have liked it.
Course these days it can be tough to find information on with alpine linux being so popular.
Thunderbird is pretty great on every platform. I’d use it if I didn’t use a free ProtonMail. Because of this, I use ElectronMail, which is pretty great for what it is.
I like TD a lot. But the resource hog no matter how I tweak may perhaps mean I upgrade my hardware.
FYI I’ve seen people on Lemmy express negative views about ProtonMail for supposedly being a honeypot, and for their support of Belarus & Hong Kong protesters.
I don’t use ProtonMail for anything illicit, but also I wonder to what extent ProtonMail could even be a honeypot. It’s all encrypted, open source, and hosted in Switzerland and a handful of other countries. I feel like it would take coordinated effort among several countries to get ahold of my emails and I’m not nearly important enough for this.
Assuming you are coming from Mac to Linux, you might try claws mail, but it is a bit rougher than thunderbird. It also has a flatpak version (like thunderbird) that you can sandbox.
https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/
https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.claws_mail.Claws-Mail
https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.mozilla.ThunderbirdNeat. Seems claws is a popular choice.
