Recommended email clients...

[b0redom]

Hi Folks,
My Gmail account is sitting around 14GB and I need to start cleaning it up. I've not really done much pruning in the last few years, and I get a LOT of email. I was planning on using a fat client so I can sort by size, sender (so I can remove massive amounts of marketing spam) etc.

What's everyone's recommended mail client? OSX or Windows is fine.

Cheers...

b0redom

[Jonj1611]

I am using Mac Mail, seems to do the job just fine.

On Windows I used emclient. But saying that in the end I was signed up to Microsoft 365 so ended up using Outlook

[Saracen999]

I stuck with Eudora for absolutely ages, even after development was stopped. Why? I liked it, was used to it, and it made backing up, and even re-installing/transferring an absolute dream. But, needs must ....

These days, Thunderbird. It's okay. A bit frustrating and clunky in places but, mostly, pretty good and it gets the job done. And frankly, my needs these days are pretty minimal anyway.

[smargh]

Becky! Internet Mail.

http://www.rimarts.co.jp/becky.htm

Very flexible, and easy to back up & transfer to a new PC - just back up the files along with HKCU\Software\RimArts.

[Giraffe]

There's
https://www.emailtray.com/
which I find useful for checking at intervals and is also a client.
Then there's
https://binaryoutcast.com/projects/interlink/
based on T'bird and from one of the team at Pale Moon.

[b0redom]

Hmmm, I've deleted several thousand (yes really) emails using Thunderbird, but my inbox is still sitting at 94% usage. I've done the 'empty deleted' thing. Anything else I need to do to purge mail?

[Giraffe]

Compact folders - the emails need to be 'squeezed' out!
File - Compact Folders. Or R-click on an Inbox and choose Compact; do for each Inbox.
You can set a limit, above which T'bird will ask you:
Tools - Options - Advanced - Network & Disk Space - last box. Mine's set to 350MB and Compact is ticked and set to 1MB.

[Kovoet]

I think I'm going to look into this as well as google mail now is just spam and I cannot stop it. Even when I block one it's like it gets replaced by two

[spacein_vader]

Hmmm, I've deleted several thousand (yes really) emails using Thunderbird, but my inbox is still sitting at 94% usage. I've done the 'empty deleted' thing. Anything else I need to do to purge mail?

Have you tried sorting by file size? Might be a handful of emails with hefty attachments you may no longer need and/or could be stored in a local or cloud backup instead.

Email is not a filing system.

[OliversArmy]

If you was still looking, I'd recommend eMClient it looks the part and works on both Windows & MacOS.