Mail is designed to let you manage your email quickly and effortlessly.
Its interface is based on conversations, so you can read an entire discussion without having to click from message to message.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Lightweight mail client with full IMAP support.
- Mail grouped into conversations, not a tree of threads.
- As-you-type searching.
- Multiple account support.
- Inline HTML composer that saves drafts to the server.
- Works with Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, and other popular IMAP servers.
Website: github.com/elementary/mail
Support:
Developer: elementary
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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I used this client. It was originally known as Pantheon Mail. Using the name Mail just leads to unnecessary confusion.
Mail is in direct conflict with the decendent of the original Mail released in 1971 which is installed in many distributions by default and is now at version 14.9.24. This conflict makes it problematic in several ways.
The majority of distros don’t install mail by default. For example, in Ubuntu it’s provided by the mailutils package. That’s not installed by default.
The binary is named io.elementary.mail not mail.
Apple call their email client Mail. I can think of a few other similar instances off the top of my head.