 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel today. I'm going to be talking about the top five email clients for Linux now Chances are you use email? I think everybody pretty much does now the level that you use email probably varies Some people check it several times an hour. Some people check it once a week I mean really it depends on what you do for a living or your general Idea of what emails for because a lot of people have transferred from using email to chat apps like discord and telegram and things for their primary means of communication and leave email for corporate responses and stuff like that But no matter what your level of use of email is chances are You've tried to decide how to use it now most people I'd say probably about 80 to 90 percent actually just use the web client so if you use Gmail which Most people use Gmail. Unfortunately. I use Gmail. I can't help it That Google has their hooks into me. I can't you know not Must use Google services must I Lost it there for a minute. Anyways You know most people use the web client, so they just go to gmail.com or whatever and that's how they check their email and then On their phone, they'll use the Gmail app But if you're a nerd or if you need more features Then what the web client will provide there are several clients available on Linux that do a really good job So that's what we're going to be talking about today. Let's go ahead and jump in Okay, so the first one I want to talk about is Neomutt and that's what this is right here now Neomutt is not for everyone. I'm gonna put that out there right up front It's a terminal based application and terminal based applications are definitely not something that Everybody will be into so that's just a thing if you're not into terminal based applications Go ahead and jump into the next Application which I'll leave the time stamps down below so you can jump around if you want to Main selling point of Neomutt is that is terminal based. It's low on resources and it's highly customizable It also has full support for most email services that support IMAP including Google But you'll have to have two-factor and authentication Enabled in order to actually use Google or Gmail Inside of Neomutt because you'll have to have an app specific password in order to do so now setting up Neomutt is not Easy if you're just going to do it on your own now that new Luke Smith has a tool or script That he's written called Mutt wizard, which I'll link in the description below And that will allow you to set it up really easily It has several dependencies with you go through and do that do it that way Including pass and GPG and all these things that you have to use in order to actually secure your account so I've started with this one because this is the nerdiest option out there This is the one that I use as my daily driver but it's really not for everyone but if you're into tweaking stuff and getting into the nitty gritty details of customizing terminal based applications This one would definitely be an option for you. So the next one I'm going to talk about is Thunderbird now Thunderbird I'm not exactly sure what the development status of Thunderbird is. It's not part of Mozilla anymore It's its own separate thing, but it used to be its own separate thing. Then it was Mozilla. It's very confusing I don't know who's developing anymore. It is still being developed. It's probably the most popular email client on Linux it is very customizable. It has a full a productivity suite including email calendar to do It has enterprise support ahead of the ones that are on here that are GUI applications. It has the most customizable Appearance in terms of actually laying stuff out so you can move your message You're the message over here or up top or along the side. It doesn't really matter There's several options. There are it has keyboard support and stuff Yeah, it's very easy to set up works well with Google and pretty much every IMAP service and I think it also works with pop I'm not sure. Are there even any services out there that still use pop 3. I'm not I'm not even sure I think most places have now just switched over to IMAP, but it works very well with Google Even works well with Google with two-factor authentication enabled, which is not something that Other apps on this list can actually say because all the other ones If you're using something like what Geary, which I'm going to talk about here in a few minutes you'll have to have two-factor authentication set up and and get a App specific password in order for her to actually work with it with Thunderbird. You can actually log into your Google Account through like a browser plug-in that it has that's included and it will just you know, log you in and then Do whatever two-factor right in Thunderbird Instead of logging you out or not working at all So a few cons for this. It's very clunky. That's something I've noticed that is It's just there's a lot here and the whole full productivity sweet thing like I Don't know if I can actually show you as I got here We got the calendar and then here's the to-do thing that can be kind of bloat for a lot of people and You know it has all these features that you might not necessarily need now One of the cool things about it is it does have a full suite of plugins that you can use including for contact syncing and Themes and all this sorts of stuff and that's not something that the other apps on this list can boast It's and it's also probably though because it's so popular It has the biggest community therefore if you have problems chances are you'll probably be able to find help with this one better Than if you used one of the other apps, especially Neomutt Neomutt doesn't have as big a community So you're not gonna be able to find the support as much as you would on Thunderbird now the next one. I'm going to be talking about is mail spring Mail spring is probably the prettiest of the Apps on this list if you like the design aesthetic of Apple's applications This is probably kind of like that now It also has come a ton of cool features it has read receipts and open and link tracking Enabled out of the box it has contact tracing and a ton of different Cool little features that it has built in that you can use that none of the other apps actually have For example, it has this share this thread feature. So you could actually share a email thread to the Cloud and then share it to people who aren't actually in the conversation, which is kind of cool It's definitely Not for everyone though because this aesthetic is very pretty It doesn't work well with piling window managers because it has this menu up here and you can't get rid of that I've also noticed that it doesn't really Play well at all with GTK themes. This is Written by itself in terms of theming and stuff. You can change the theme You know you could go to the dark theme here Like that and you can also create your own theme, but again, it's not it doesn't actually go through and Follow your GTK theme Like some of the other ones will actually won't list Thunderbird kind of does But it more focuses on your the theme you install from the The web store or whatever it's called All right, so that's mail spring. I should mention that it does feature It does work well with Gmail and proton and all those things The biggest downside actually that I forgot to mention this I really should mention this is that mail spring requires you to have a mail spring account in order to even use the app It will not even open the app and allow you to sign into an email account Without having a mail spring account and as far as I can tell that mail spring account is completely useless You don't get anything for it. You're just giving them your email address for no parent reason Now if you sign up for their pro account, then I suppose you'd maybe get some Kind of benefits for having an account through mail spring But you know, I don't know anybody who does it it's a dollars a month I'm not gonna pay dollars a month for an email client when there are other free options or when I can give that money to an app a developer That I actually want to support that I'm not being forced to support, you know, so Keep that in mind. You can't actually use this without Having an account So the next one I want to talk about is Gary now You'll notice here that I don't actually have Gary and I have do have Gary installed, but I can't sign into it because it doesn't play well with Gmail now if you have Two-factor authentication set up you can get an app specific password and actually get this to work But I wasn't gonna go through and do that for this Video I just I just didn't have time to do it But Gary itself is actually very well-designed. It's kind of reminds you of mail spring and kind of like Reminds you of maybe Apple Mail in terms of design It may it probably won't use this Look and deem anymore because this is you know an older screenshot So it will use your g2k theme from whatever you're using And it's just an email client. So it doesn't have the extra Features or functionality of something like Thunderbird. It's just an email client. It's very fast and it's easy to set up So if you're using just a standard IMAP account, it is truly easy to set up if you're using Gmail It's not so easy to set up because like I said, you have to have two-factor authentication on You have to have an app specific platform and actually order to get to work And that's because it doesn't Unlike Thunderbird where Thunderbird will take you to like a to the browser once you Try to sign in with Gmail and it'll allow you to sign in with Google's like web page or whatever And then we'll take you back to the app after authenticating Gary does not do that. It just has a regular login screen that it for itself and that's all it is And that's really disappointing if you're using Gmail So if you're using something else is probably the best solution on the list because Gary is really well done It's really fast. I will say that it's not updated very often. So well, I don't think it's abandoned It's updated maybe once a year ish. So in terms of Security patches and new features and stuff. You're not going to be expecting a lot with Gary This is one of those ones that just is I think developed by like one or two people and that's literally all there is It's good, but just keep that in mind Okay, so the last one on the list is evolution and once again You'll notice that I don't have this up for you to actually use and that's because it will not launch on my computer Like I have installed if I do evolution like it's there and I can hit enter and it never shows up I don't know why I installed it through the pet the arch Repositories and I'm not sure like actually I can actually go through and look that's that'd be an interesting So it has been updated recently. So why it doesn't work on my particular system. I don't know That's just it's just a thing. So that might be just me a me problem I have had this problem in the past where we'll just not start for whatever reason and Whether that's an arch problem or if it's an evolution problem, like I said, I'm not sure so That may be turning you away from this immediately, but I would say don't let it unless it actually won't work for you I give it a try because of all of them on the list. I think evolution is probably the best now. It is a full Productivity suite it has contacts current calendars tasks and memos You may never use those things. It doesn't matter The reason why I like it and when I can get to work I use it When I'm not using you might is because it's easy to set up It works well with most email accounts including gmail It follows the g2k theming very well because it's actually developed by the genome foundation or at least somebody who's associated with the genome foundation, so If you don't like supporting genome software, then this one probably is not for you. It has enter surprise support I didn't mention an enterprise support for the other ones But mail spring has enterprise support and Thunderbird has enterprise support So if you have an enterprise email those three or these three will work the best for you I don't think Geary does and I'm not sure how Neo mutt would support it I'm assuming you'd have to have some kind of hacker. You know what or they actually get to work Geary is updated very frequently. It's it's done. Like I said, it's supported by the genome foundation the Code is actually on The genome get lab. So, you know, it's very well tied in with genome So if you're if you're a genome user or a desktop environment, that's based on genome or g2k This is probably the one that will look the best and we'll get the most updates It's also very fast when you can actually get to start And like I said, it has full productivity suite So if that's something that you're looking for that, you know, you want you want you want to have all of your Calendars and tests and emails and stuff all in one place. This would be a great option in terms of comparing this one and Thunderbird, which is also the full productivity suite thing Really, that's going to come down to How much you want to customize interface because Evolution doesn't have very much customization terms of interface at all Thunderbird allows a lot of customization and has theming and stuff and plug-in support and all this Kind of stuff whereas evolution is really kind of just meant to be however it is That's what you get out of the box is what you're going to get So in terms of cons the full productivity suite again may turn some people off It might be bloat for some people Maybe you just want an email client in which case you'll want to, you know Look at one of the other ones on the list the design may not be February like I said It's not very customizable Thunderbird of all of them in terms of interface Thunderbird is the most customizable Unless you're looking at like Neal mutt where you can actually go through and really get into the code And the last one is that I've had some problems with bugs in the past. So On my system right now, I can't get to launch don't know why I've had that problem before I've had problems where it would crash in the past. So one of the Cons of it being updated to frequently is you're probably going to see more bugs with it than what you would with Gary in term You know because Gary seems to be a little bit more stable now granted if there's a showstopping bug on Gary It's not probably gonna get fixed as fast as it would on evolution. So that's a thing. So Those are the top five email clients for Linux now Like I said, I use Neal mutt, but that's mostly because I'm a nerd for everything in the terminal And I will continue to be that way for a long time. It's just the way I Prefer to do work if I were to use a GUI. I'd probably use Evolution if I could get it to run or Thunderbird Malespring is the prettiest and I like this that I could mail spring, but I don't this camera is horrible We'll just fight through it. Shall we? I'm trying to turn the lights up. Maybe they'll stop If anybody ever wonders why I'm really well lit Overlit maybe because this camera requires weird lighting and if you don't have it just right It does this nonsense. Anyways, what was I talking about? If if I were to use one of the GUI ones, it'd probably be evolution or Thunderbird Thunderbird seems to be the most customizable and I kind of like the customizable thing. So Thunderbird probably would be my options things how I can't get evolution to work So anyways, if you use a different email client, let me know in the comments below if you're something else Do you like or let me know which one of these that you enjoy and I'll work on the whole Shifting light thing. I don't know what's going on with that. It's no way. 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