Emailapp for Linux like Poppeeper for Windows

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  1. bellgamin

    bellgamin Registered Member

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    I need an email client for Linux that works *fairly* similar to the way that PopPeeper works for Windows.

    Reason: I have 12 websites that teach apologetics & theology. I started these websites back in 1997 or thereabouts & worked on them for about 11 years. I no longer work on them but leave them online -- the stuff thereon doesn't go out of date. They still get an avg of 25,645 unique visitors/month, all told -- not bad for that type of site.

    From those websites & other stuff, I get over 280 emails daily. My webhost's servers use Spam Assassin & are quite good BUT I don't delete the alleged spam. Instead it goes to a trash account that I eye-scan every few days. With Poppeeper I can eye-scan a 150+ list of senders & subjects of these alleged spams in just a minute or less. That's why I need a Linux app that's similar to Poppeeper.

    Any & all suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
     
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    I didn't find one but I think you can install Wine and run PopPeeper within Linux that way.
    Just a thought.
     
  3. bellgamin

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    @fblais -- Great suggestion. Thanks -- it's my "plan B."

    However, I still hope to find a Linux app that can do the following, as does PopPeeper:

    1. Be structured so as to automatically load nothing but each email's sender, subject and size. (Loading of entire message must be by user's command only.)

    2. Be structured to handle LOTS of email accounts.

    3. Be structured such that it does NOT execute html for any given message except when user asks it to do so.

    4. Be structured NOT to load images except by user's command.

    5. No spam filter unless it can easily be disabled.

    Free or paid n.p.
     
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    +1

    One of the many programmes I miss living in the "Linuxsphere".
     
  5. bellgamin

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    I have looked & looked, tested & tested, but I still haven't found a Linux email app that I really like & understand. Only two email apps came close

    1- Claws-Mail
    and
    2- Thunderbird -- This app is beautifully designed EXCEPT I could not find any way to have more than one email account. There is NO "add another account" click-spot whatsoever. Its "Help" file for this problem seemed written for Android/Phone apps because it referred to menus that Thunderbird's PC version did not offer.
     
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  7. FanJ

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    In my TB Windows version you can add an email account here:
    In TB :
    Tools >
    Account Settings >
    Account Actions >
    Add Mail Account

    Whether that exists in a non-Windows OS I don't know
     
  8. bellgamin

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    Hola @FanJ :thumb::thumb::thumb: -- My Linux version of T-bird lacks those entries. :'(
     
  9. Stupendous Man

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    @bellgamin,
    In Thunderbird 102.4.2 on Kubuntu 22.04, I don't find Account Settings under Tools, but under Edit (on top).
    (Apart from under Edit, Account Settings is also in the 'hamburger' menu, to the right).
    Edit >
    Account Settings >
    Account Actions >
    Add Mail Account
     
  10. bellgamin

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    @Stupendous Man -- I'm not running Linux at this moment (it's bedtime in Hawaii) but I shall check it tomorrow and have another go at finding "add account" based on your clue. Thanks for the suggestion.

    P.S. Are you loving Kubuntu? If so, tell me more about it, please.
    P.P.S. Why are you running 22.04 & not 22.10?
     
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    Same in my Debian
     
  12. Stupendous Man

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    Yes, I can imagine it was. I'm on the other side of the globe, eleven time zones away. When in Hawaii it was bedtime, here in the Netherlands the sun was just getting up (although it was hiding behind thick clouds).
    I hope you sleep well. Later, I hope you'll be able to find the right menu item to add another mail account.

    I do like Kubuntu.
    I moved from Windows 7 to Kubuntu 18.04 in January 2020. By now, I'm on Kubuntu 22.04. I choose Kubuntu because of it being Ubuntu (mainstream, lots of applications and lots of documentation to find) with KDE (very customizable Plasma desktop and other KDE goodies). I choose Kubuntu LTS versions because of stability.
    Also, the Dedoimedo reviews are mostly positive about Kubuntu, which was and is another reason for me to go for Kubuntu.
     
  13. bellgamin

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    I looked again at Zorin's version of Tbird. At the top there are none of the usual: File, Edit, etc. There IS an Account Settings tab but it offers no option to add an account.

    Down in the bottom left corner of Tbird's GUI there is a gray cog-wheel icon -- the usual icon for settings. I clicked the cogwheel for the umpteenth time & it produced just that -- a page for configuring Tbird -- but NO option for creating a new account.

    Then I noticed a little blue ball in that same bottom corner. I had seen it before but it didn't look like something to click because ALL of the GUI's other clickables were in dark gray. Expecting nothing, I clicked the blue ball & THERE it was -- the option to add more accounts. Goood grief!

    Silly me. Of course EVERYone should know to click on a tiny blue ball in the lower left corner of a full-screen GUI, right?

    Oh well, I am happy to have found how to add new accounts -- otherwise I would have abandoned Zorin. Many THANKS to all you folks -- the fact that your Distro's Tbirds DID have a new accounts setting was the spur that kept me looking.

    The blue ball of happiness :confused: -- who woulda thunk it? :rolleyes:
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    P.S. I shall give Kubuntu & Debian a trial -- just for fun, because I really really like Zorin. As for Dedo's website... I always check that site's reviews for any Distro that I am considering whether to give it a trial. I don't decide quickly because the ISO downloads are big & (usually) slow. Problem is (for me) that Dedo's reviews seem to have become increasingly negative. It's hard to make a selection based on "everything is bad, so which is the least bad of the bad-est?"

    IMO, reviews should differentiate between:
    (A) How good is this Distro relative to the reviewer's view of the current state of Linux Distros in general?

    VERSUS

    (B) How good is this Distro relative to the reviewer's view of a *near-perfect* Linux Distro?

    IMO.......
    =>for the great unwashed group of Linux users (like me), type A reviews would more useful than type B reviews.
    whereas
    =>for developers of Distros, type B reviews are more useful than Type A.
    so that
    =>Dedo seems to be trending toward mainly type B reviews that contain just a dash of type A.
     
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  14. Stupendous Man

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    Oh ... Bellgamin, who would have thought that they did so differently in Zorin.
    Perhaps they made it 'Zorin style', if that is a thing?
    Now I have been searching for Zorin Thunderbird documentation or screenshots, since I noticed your latest post, as I wanted to know if such documentation exists, but I found none, so far.
    Good that our suggestions about Thunderbird's menu stimulated you to keep on looking and even click that odd blue ball.
    I hope they made other things easier in Zorin.
     
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    Speaking of T-birds (the ones made by Ford) -- the 1957 T-bird, with the round side window, was beeee-uuuu-ti-ful to the nth!
     
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    PopTray Minus is what I've been using. It's a Qt4 app, but unfortunately the original website hosting the source code is no longer up. There is an overview of the program here and a PKGBUILD located here.
     
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