There are no perfect desktop email clients, but Thunderbird is pretty great.

It’s a little too powerful for my needs, so I stick to Claws.

I must say I’m quite pleased with it too. The previous time I tried it was in 2005 and it was just ok. I also recently found out about the Owl add-on. Really makes it a good alternative

It can even look great with the Monterail Dark 2 Add-On.

(For some reason I had to download it and then install it from the downloaded file, but it DOES work!)

Also available in a Full Dark mode version

But Thunderbird still doesn’t support outlook calendar etc right?

I hate how they use quotes around the name Thunderbird…

Best decision of my life… After initial set up, it works better than microshit whore OS. You pay but it does not love you.

Here here, best 6 years ever. Never looked back.

Outlook has nothing to do with the OS though? You can get the same Outlook app on MacOS too.

Agreed, but unfortunately, unless they implement VJOURNAL in their caldav implementation, I’ll probably switch to Fastmail when my prepay is up.

I went on a trawl on email security and privacy.

It doesn’t fucking exist.

Regular mails w/e sure

But I’m never talking to someone via email again.

Privacy-focused email doesn’t truly exist, since it’s likely 90%+ of people you email are probably using Gmail, Hotmail/Outlook, or Yahoo. Companies like Gmail/Google could still build a profile of you if they wanted to, by collecting all the threads you’re a participant in.

The best you can do is self-host your mailbox (e.g. Using Mailcow) with an encrypted file system (e.g. using LUKS), but you’d still need to use an SMTP gateway to ensure deliverability, so it’s going to be relayed through, and ultimately end up at, some third-party you have no control over. Some third-parties don’t even have TLS enabled for their email servers.

You shouldn’t think of email as a private or secure communication mechanism unless you’re encrypting your emails.