E-mail client alternatives to Outlook (Windows and Android) - eviltoast

Ever since Iā€™ve came to the company as a sole Sys admin (where there was none before) Iā€™ve tried to keep it simple as possibleā€¦ everyone has MS Office Home&Business, Iā€™ll move everyone to Outlook from the damn Windows Live Mailā€¦ and sure thing, Iā€™ll also install Outlook on their phones whoever wants to have Email access on their phones.

And itā€™s been a messā€¦ people on Windows complaining that they dislike the new Search inside Outlook, sometimes when they try to start it up it doesnā€™t even open but hangs as a dead process so I had to put a shortcut on their desktop that does ā€˜taskkill /IM outlook.exeā€™ā€¦ it happens on both old Windows 10 setups and brand new Windows 11 setups of all kindsā€¦ Also theyā€™re pushing their new look a bit by bit and Iā€™m thinking of migrating to something else before it even happens

On Android sometimes it has hard time syncing with IMAP and the search is also brokenā€¦ it doesnā€™t work at all if only one IMAP account is logged in, so I had to login a dummy IMAP email account as a second one because only then you get the search option of which directories to search for and only then it worksā€¦ idk how else to explain this but I found many people complaining about the same thing and using a solution like this for yearsā€¦

So, what are your top alternatives for Email clients? It doesnā€™t have to be free (but a one time payment would be preferable), but it has to be a stable and simple experience for the workers on both Windows and Android. Body

  • Vilian@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    i use thunderbird in my computer and k-9 in the cellphone, thunderbird are sponsoring k-9 too, as the mobile client(not sure if they gonna fork it)

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, I think the rebranding is supposed to happen in December and they will start work on an iOS version next year.

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      11 months ago

      I will give that combo a shot for a couple of coworkers and see how they will react after a while. Iā€™ve used K-9 2 years ago and it seemed fine, though my company also purchased us Nine Mail and was quite decent. Any thoughts/experiences?