well my home PC has been acting weird the past day or so - its been randomly powering itself off

so early this morning I started downloading everything off the machine and dumping to a terabyte drive

probably by tomorrow I will power up my Linux box - its running Mint (forget which version right now)

what are people using as an email client?

Probably most are using Thunderbird. I don't, because I find it too busy. I use a faster, lighter app called claws-mail. But that isn't w/o its flaws, either.

I am using the Windows Thunderbird so I'm familiar with it and frankly the last few updates have been less than impressive

i will check out claws later this week

Mailspring. I like it’s features and the interface is intuitive..

I stick with web-mail on my *nix boxes.

I still prefer Evolution on my linux machine. It's extremely full featured and works well with multiple email accounts and my Google Calendar.

What Linux Mint came with ... Thunderbird. My favorite Thunderbird app, FireTray, no longer works with latest Thunderbird version though and isn't being developed

Sorry can't help as I just log in to my provider's web site to get my email. I use Linux Mint Mate.

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I use Linux Mint 19.1 on my laptop. While Thunderbird is the most obvious choice for email I stick to Gmail and Protonmail web services for my email.

I faced this recently with my conversion of an old Dell Vostro 1000 (augmented with a new SSD) from XP to Mint Mate 19.1.

I still use my Win10 desktop as my primary system with Thunderbird my email client. I also use the Android 8.0 native email client on my smartphone to access email when out and about. I have it set to leave mail on my ISP deferring to my desktop to D/L and then remove mail.

Decided I didn't need the redundancy of Thunderbird on my Linux laptop. Instead I've simply bookmarked the ISP email site in Firefox where I can read / send email if needed just like with my smartphone without having to configure and sync T'Bird. Simple, uncomplicated, and works for me with my equipment.

But were I to be required to press the laptop into more active service, yeah T'Bird would be my solution.



And FWIW with upgrades here's what I've ended up with from a laptop purchased back in 2008. It's pretty snappy with the SSD and Linux!

Dell Vostro 1000 laptop
--15.4” XGA LCD display
--AMD Athalon 64 X2 TK57 1.9GHz/ 256Kb CPU
--Crucial 4GB Kit 2X2GB PC2-6400S DDR2-800MHZ SODIMM 1.8v 200 pin RAM
--Crucial BX300 120Gb 3D nano SATA 2.5" SSD CT120BX300SSD1 (running under SATA 1.5)
--Silicon Power Blaze B30 64Gb USB 3.0 flashdrive (running under a 2.0 port for Timeshift system snapshots)
--ATI Radeon® Xpress 1150 256MB HyperMemory™ (integrated)
--Dell Wireless 1395 802.11g Wi-Fi Internal Card
--Hitachi GSA-T21N 8x DVD +/-R
--53 Whr 6-cell LiON battery
--Linux Mint Mate 19.1
--Logitech M570 750 dpi 2.4GHz wireless trackball mouse
--Monoprice Laptop Cooling Stand Item #8422 (MP 50904)
--Goal Zero Luna Touch LED light #14104

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Real men use mutt.

I, however, use Thunderbird.

Claws is another good GTK based email client.

As a long time (20 years) KDE user, I also am partial to Kmail, but if you're using Cinnamon, you probably don't want to install all of the KDE libraries just to run your email client.