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Is there an easy way to set up an email client so you get system notifications in GNOME once you receive an e-mail? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As simple as the title sounds I'm having huge trouble getting that working.

Thunderbird only fetches new mail while it's open.

Who the heck knows how to get evolution/geary to play nice with business gmail/protonmail.

Does anyone have a simple way of solving this problem?

edit. Also, somewhat related, is there a good looking, simple e-mail client? Thunderbird looks busy. Geary kinda looks okay but I cant get it to work at all.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been using Mailspring for both personal and business email, it seems like a decent UI so far, and it functions as you'd expect: runs at login, sits in the tray, notifies when new email comes in, etc. It's open source and free, unless you need their "pro" features.

Possibly some people will be annoyed that it's an Electron app, but it launches and runs more responsively than Thunderbird ever has on my machines, so I don't find that to be a problem. I would rather a Gnome native app, but I'm not aware of any that function well, as OP laments.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome. I'll give mailsprint a try, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I tried Mailspring but it doesn't support folders very well, and I tried improving that myself but my dev environment never really worked properly so I gave up.

It works well if you don't heavily use folders (e.g. via Sieve filters).