Every few years I make myself crazy trying to make mail clients functional. It is possible to find other nerds who love tbird or evolution or mutt or pine or others but one thing you might notice is that they are all 10+ and mostly 20+ year users. Almost never you find someone who is 2 years in. Its a good idea and I'm sure it could be possible but I do not think it exists. Thing is that I was spoiled by gmail. It let's you do things like manipulate server based filters in the client. Which ought to be possible like with sieve, but isn't. And would automatically know about aliases without having to program each device. And this whole thing about having to opt in to "polling" individual folders what the heck. Tres stupid. Apparently this is all problems inherent to the mail protocols that can only be got around by host-specific custom clients. My email host (fastmail) has OK webmail/mobile clients that can do most of what gmail did and thats why I stick with them after trying various other options. I find its very embarrassing to be forced to use a close sourced email application. email being like an archetypal open protocol. Sad.! On Sun, Feb 22, 2026, at 6:41 PM, Ron via Talk wrote:
I've just setup RoundMail and it's very, very nice - even on mobile.
Curious if anyone uses it or has any opinions?
I've always considered webmail a 2nd class experience but I've had to update my opinion on that.
Also, Thunderbird has been my go-to client since PolarBar ceased updates.
I still like it, but Evolution has been quite good too.
So, what are the group's thoughts on email clients?
Also, if anyone wants to test out Stalwart for email / CalDAV / CardDAV / optional encryption-at-rest with S/MIME or PGP, I'd be happy to set up an account for testing.
Connect with RoundCube or any client you wish.
Stalwart also supports OAuth, OpenID Connect, etc. but I don't know what to do with them. It's the entire email tech stack redone in a single Rust package - quite desirable to do away with all the fiddly components...
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