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submitted 3 days ago by marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I have been looking for an email client on Linux after being tired of Gmail and Outlook web clients.

I had Thunderbird installed on my system and thought I'd give it a spin. I set up POP for my email accounts and it worked fantastic... For a total of 2 hours, after which I realised that searching in Thunderbird is simply not going to work for me. I need to search by attachment name and sometimes even by text inside attachment and unfortunately Thunderbird can't do that (I think I tried an extension too but it made the UI super clunky to the point that I couldn't even understand how to navigate it anymore).

Does Betterbird or any other email client fix this problem? I'm willing to try other options if they are FOSS.

Thanks

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Edge cases are not the norm, though.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not so sure that it is an edge case. I'm just an average person. I'm sure there are many people who have reason to receive and/or save much larger volumes of email than I do. Regardless, it's always better to have software that works well under a wide range of circumstances.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago

On my company mail account I have collected circa 10000 mails during the past 10 years, which is circa 80 mails a month - and that is a lot.

If you're not following multiple high-volume mailing lists since a decade and archive every single e-mail I don't think its normal to have 50000 mails in a mailbox.