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

  • @InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17•1 day ago

    I’ve always liked Thunderbird. Geary is also nice. Not sure if it can attachment search.

    You can filter messages with attachment on Thunderbird btw

    • @marauding_gibberish142@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      4•1 day ago

      Yes but I can’t search by the name of the attachment. Unfortunately that’s a deal breaker for me. I need it to search the Content-Type field at the very least and I don’t think it can do that without an extension

      • 𝚝𝚛𝚔English
        6•23 hours ago

        Yes but I can’t search by the name of the attachment.

        I just searched for text thats in an attachment filename and it worked - with a caveat. I have a filename called “PMASUP236 - Operate Vehicles In The Field.pdf” on an email. There is no reference to the PMASUP236 in any other part of any email.

        If I search “PMASUP236”, it returns the email as a result.
        If I search “SUP236” it does not.
        If I search “Operate Vehicles” it returns that email (along with a heap of others containing the word “Operate” and “Vehicles” in any order).

        Admittedly this is on Windows at work, though I do run Thunderbird on Linux at home. Will have to try it there to confirm.

      • @ISOmorph@feddit.org
        4•23 hours ago

        You can use the FiltaQuilla extension to add content-type as search category. It’s a pretty powerful yet straight forward extension