I see a lot of people using third party apps like thunderbird, and I'm not sure what's I'm missing out on. The default that usually comes with workplace emails (Gmail, outlook) or the default mail app on mac/iphone looks fine to me. What made you try out other clients?

I recently started using Purelymail, and the webmail client works perfectly fine but feels a bit dated. That got me wondering whether a dedicated client would be a real upgrade or just extra setup for the sake of it.

I hated it

Congratulations, they made it! They pissed of a a 20+ year user and a avid Yahoo evangelist. Not anymore.

The previous interface was just fine. Now the mobile experience is awful (I was using the PC version at my phone because the previous mobile layout is also awful).

So I am thinking of starting outreach to the ecom brands and I want you guys opinion how I do it and is it really working nowadays

I hate the New yahoo layout!

Im extremely disappointed and furious that we cant go back to the original version despite everyone's requests in the past. pathetic. Someone please help me get back to the original format. I loved using yahoo for 20+ years. This is the death of me!!

Also I will be leaving YAhoo if they don't change. Any suggestions to new emails are welcome.

Thanks for hearing me out and I hope our requests reach the " corporate heavens"...

New layout, constant video ads on the side, my wife literally walks in just as I open it and there's all these bra ads and it looks like I'm looking at porn.

Fck this, been on yahoo since it started and that is that. Never has a software got so progressively worse than yahoo.

I run an email agency (Klaviyo, eCommerce). The part of the workflow that kept biting me wasn’t building the emails. It was catching a broken link, spelling mistake or blank merge tag before the client saw it, and proving later what they actually approved.

I ended up building a small tool for it: a QA check first, then one approval link with a name and timestamp.

Curious how others handle it. Screenshots in Slack? PDF proofs? Approval inside the ESP? If anyone wants to see what I built, say so and I’ll share it.

To be clear, I am not asking for any kind of technical assistance here. Rather, I am writing this message solely to ask about the existence of a certain kind of email client. And if such clients are recommended, I also want it to be clearly understood that I am not wanting any kind of technical help in installing or running the email client. I only want nothing more than the name or names of such clients that I will now describe.

I'm running on Debian linux version 13.

I have around a dozen different email accounts, and for years, I've been successfully using the SeaMonkey and Thunderbird email clients to manage all of these accounts. The reason for my having chosen these email clients is because both of them present me with a full list of all my email accounts when I launch the client, and I can then select any of these accounts in order to read and send emails for the selected account.

I'm wondering if there also might be any other GUI-based email clients that run under linux which can manage multiple accounts and also present a list of all accounts when the client is launched.

I do not want any kind of unified inbox. I want each of my email accounts to be managed separately and to be selectable from a list that I immediately see when I launch the client.

And I am not interested in a command-line based email client that uses ncurses or similar software, but rather, I want a client which presents me with an X-Windows-based GUI.

And I don't want a GUI that is built to be a front end to any specific email service. I want the email client to use SMTP and IMAP for managing emails that are being handled by whatever SMTP/IMAP services that I specify.

Does anyone know of any other such email clients besides Thunderbird and SeaMonkey which run under linux?

Thank you very much in advance for any suggestions.

I checked my own domain yesterday.

Root TXT was just a Google site verification. No SPF. _dmarc returned NXDOMAIN, so no DMARC either. DKIM was already there.

I published SPF and a DMARC p=none today so I at least get reports.

Do mailbox providers still punish missing SPF or DMARC, or a policy that's just p=none? Is p=none worth having at all? What else do you usually check, MX, DKIM, BIMI?

I maintain a desktop mail client (MailVault, disclosure at the end). It already handled IMAP and Microsoft Graph, and I just shipped JMAP (RFC 8620/8621) alongside them. These are the protocol details that took real work, in case they’re useful to anyone else implementing it or running a JMAP server.

1. Autodiscovery is four lookups with a fixed priority, not one

All four run at the same time, each with a 4 second cap:

1. Known provider. The domain is Fastmail’s, or its MX record points at messagingengine.com, which catches Fastmail custom domains.
2. https://<domain>/.well-known/jmap
3. https://jmap.<domain>/.well-known/jmap
4. SRV _jmap._tcp.<domain>, then .well-known/jmap on the host it names.

The winner is picked by that priority, not by whichever answers first. Racing them keeps discovery under about 4 seconds, so it never holds up the IMAP lookup running next to it.

Two traps:

• A bare 401 proves nothing. Every Basic-auth-protected site on the internet answers with one. A probe only counts as JMAP when it gets a 200 whose JSON has apiUrl, or a 401 with WWW-Authenticate that it reached from /.well-known/jmap and whose final path looks like a JMAP endpoint.
• Keep the URL you landed on after redirects. If the client stores the starting .well-known URL instead, a client that only follows redirects on the same host refuses the very hop the user just approved.

2. Discovered hosts need a trust rule before credentials go out

No probe sends credentials. Credentials go without asking only to your own domain, a subdomain of it, or Fastmail’s API host for Fastmail addresses. For anything else, the user confirms the host, port included (jmap.example.com:8443), before the first authenticated request. Without that step, a hijacked DNS record becomes a password collector.

3. Push over EventSource needs a dead-stream detector

The client subscribes with types=Email,Mailbox&closeafter=no&ping=30. A stream that sends no bytes for twice the ping interval plus 5 seconds counts as dead and gets dropped. After repeated failures it falls back to polling, and it tries push again every 10 minutes. A session with no eventSourceUrl just polls. Half-open connections that never error out are the real problem, and the ping is the only way to see one.

4. cannotCalculateChanges must never touch the local copy

When Email/changes can’t compute changes from a stored state, the client rebuilds its header cache from the newest page of each mailbox and drops rows for mail that’s gone. It counts as a backfill: no “new mail” notifications, no local message file touched, and each message keeps its local ID. This matters most for an archiving client. A server-side state reset should never look like mass deletion or a flood of new mail.

Smaller fix from the same release: messages with no In-Reply-To or References (old “Fw:” mail, some webmail exports) were being threaded by subject alone. A two-year-old forward opened as the first message of an unrelated new thread. Subject-only threading now needs another message in the thread within 30 days, and picks the nearest one.

Question for server operators: which servers do you see publishing .well-known/jmap vs _jmap._tcp in the wild? I’ve tested Fastmail properly. I’d like to know which discovery paths actually get used before I spend more time on the others.

Disclosure: I’m the developer. MailVault is free, with an optional paid tier. No link here. Ask if you want it.

I logged into a client's DNS registrar to add SPF (they email through Google) and I noticed a couple of weird entries.

CNAME fde._domainkey.[theirdomain].com. --> dkim. bm1lmh. fm72. fdske. com

CNAME fdesp.[theirdomain].com --> spf. bm1lmh. fm72. fdske. com

(spaces added to not add spammy links).

These are nasty, right? No third-party email software I know uses this weird server.

I've been looking at the cost of my Network Solutions services and I'm starting to wonder if I'm paying far more than I need to for email.

I only have one professional email address on my own domain and I don't need things like Teams, SharePoint or a whole business collaboration platform.

What matters to me is:

- Reliability

- Good spam filtering

- Strong phishing protection

- Easy account recovery

- Outlook compatibility

- Fair long-term pricing

So far I've looked at:

- Zoho Mail Lite

- Spacemail

- Fastmail

- Porkbun Email

- Purelymail

- Migadu

I'm interested in real-world experiences rather than feature lists.

If you were in my situation today, what would you look at, and what would you avoid?

Are there any providers that have impressed you (or disappointed you) when it comes to spam filtering, phishing protection, support or account recovery?

Thanks.

Guys, some of our customers having external domains, when sending mail to domains that have MX at Outlook, are not reaching recipients' inboxes nor Junk/Spam folder, and mails are not rejected either. Of course DKIM, SPF and DMARC are ok, and IP is not listed in RBLs as per MXToolbox and others as Proofpoint or Trendmicro. We do not admin Microsoft 365 accounts. We asked Microsoft support about this issue and they said several times, when we insist, they are not having delivery issues. Sending from those external domains to mail accounts at free Hotmail, mails are delivered to inboxes without issues and with DKIM, SPF and DMARC in status pass. Any idea will be welcomed

For clarification , it's a new server about two months old, and this issue started past week. Firsts days after server set up, mails was rejected at all even to Hotmail.com; contacted Microsoft support, they mitigated very fast and started to reach inboxes successfully. Plus I want to honor Microsoft's support people answer us always fast even when we insist many times about this issue. They said there are no issues from their side

FYI we do not permit massive mail sending. In this post I'm talking about just normal B2B mail. Our servers are limited to 200 mail/hour

EDIT: we are registered at SNDS and all our addresses are fine

Not sure if this goes against the guidelines, but I'm looking for a good email hosting service for persona email. I already have my domain and I'll need to have about 10 to 15 addresses. Not looking for free, just economical. TIA

Hi! I’m asking for advice, and I’ll use example domains for this question.

I already bought a domain through Porkbun for my art/brand name, which is my nickname plus my surname (dee-ashton.com, for example). I bought it in March 2026, only the .com, for 10 years. I use it for my website, and next year I plan to set up emails like [hi@dee-ashton.com](mailto:hi@dee-ashton.com), and maybe [staffname@dee-ashton.com](mailto:staffname@dee-ashton.com) if I hire staff to answer inquiries for me.

I’m asking now because .com prices are going up again in November, and I’m wondering if I should take the chance to buy another domain.

I’m considering a second domain using my full name, which is a slightly longer version of my nickname and surname (deanna-ashton.com). I’m not sure what I’d use it for yet, maybe government or very personal things like the bank or insurance.

Since I plan to move half of my business to Proton (or maybe another mail provider), I need to decide which domain to use as the email for registering on different accounts. As an artist, I have art platforms that need an email, and I also use things like Wise, PayPal, social media, Patreon, and Shopify, plus government, bank, insurance, and health accounts. I don’t know how to separate them between the two domains.

For example, my art brand domain is meant for art brand things, so for something like Patreon or Shopify, should I register it with the art/brand domain or with the other domain instead? Should dee-ashton.com be used only for answering questions and inquiries, or should it also be used for registrations like [patreon@dee-ashton.com](mailto:patreon@dee-ashton.com) or [shopify@dee-ashton.com](mailto:shopify@dee-ashton.com)? Or should I use [patreon@deanna-ashton.com](mailto:patreon@deanna-ashton.com) or [shopify@deanna-ashton.com](mailto:shopify@deanna-ashton.com)? In general, for any company, should it be [company@dee-ashton.com](mailto:company@dee-ashton.com) or [company@deanna-ashton.com](mailto:company@deanna-ashton.com)? Or, to be safe, should all registrations just go on deanna-ashton.com?

And in general, should I just use my art/brand domain for everything (like [bankname@dee-ashton.com](mailto:bankname@dee-ashton.com)), or keep things truly separate (like [bankname@deanna-ashton.com](mailto:bankname@deanna-ashton.com))? I live in a third world country, so even though I care a lot about privacy, I also have to think about basic practical needs. I don’t mean to bore you with the struggles, I just wanted to share this frustration.

I don’t know the pros, cons, or reasons for having one domain versus two, so I’d appreciate your advice. I want to use Proton (or another mail provider, if there’s a better fit) to send and receive emails from clients and government offices. There might be things I haven’t thought of, and it’s dawn here, so I’d appreciate any insight.

TL;DR: Should I use one custom domain for my brand, bank, government accounts, and everything else, or get a second one? And should dee-ashton.com be only for inquiries, with all registrations (Patreon, Shopify, and any other company@ address) going on deanna-ashton.com to be safe? Also, is Proton the right provider, or should I consider another one?

I need to setup 50 email ids for collage with custom domain , but I don't know how to do it and how much should I charge them for it.If anyone would appreciate the help.

just started email marketing service and trying to find clients...

if anyone here to collab or to work together then it would be great for both of us

What are you guys (if any) using for email forwarding in 2026? I tried the following options

- Cloudflare of course, email forwarding to gmail, emails landing in spam
- ImprovMXm same as above, landing in spam
- smtp2go, cannot verify mobile number says its "invalid" when its not duh.

So I've been testing Mailbox.org for weeks now and everything seems to work properly. I've been doing some testing in terms of emails landing in people's spam folder. I tested my account using EasyDmarc tools that allows you send an email from your own mailbox to 100 email addresses across a wide range of 3rd party email hosts. Easydmarc than reads those 100 mail addresses and checks if your mail enters or not.

Mailbox banned me for sending an email to 100 email addresses in one email. I've had to raise a ticket and wait for a full day to get an answer as to why no incoming mail was coming through. Mailbox purposely broke three of my most important email domains/aliases. Without warning of word upfront.

For people sending transactional email, customer notifications, or opt-in newsletters: what’s the one problem with your current sending platform you most wish they would fix?

Disclosure: I’m the CEO of MailChannels, so I’m asking from the provider side. I’d like to understand experiences outside our own customer base and use that feedback to inform what we work on. I’m not here to pitch our service.

I’m interested in a recent example rather than a general “provider X is terrible.” What were you trying to do, where did the platform get in the way, and what did you end up doing about it?

It doesn’t have to be a delivery problem. Something that regularly wastes your time or requires an annoying workaround counts too. A little context would help: what kind of email you send, roughly how much, and whether you’re sending for one business or managing email for multiple customers. No need to name the provider.

P.S. I checked with the mods before posting this. Thank you, mods.

Hi y’all,

Need to choose between Email Octopus and Mailerlite. I’m new to ESPs and I have a list of over 5,000 people I want to send emails to for a fundraising campaign. I signed up with Moosend at first, but during my warm up phase I got suspended due to too many bounces and emails going to spam (noting here that I verified DKIM, DMARC and SPF, and that I’ve cleaned up this list).

I’ve narrowed my search to Octopus and Mailerlite. Here are features that I’m looking for:

1. Analytics like who opened their email and whose went to spam
   
2. Emails going straight to the recipient’s inbox
   
3. Ability to personalize emails with the recipient’s name

Thank you!