Besides Thunderbird, is there any good desktop mail client for Windows that doesn’t involve uploading mail to a cloud first?

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Mailspring

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Have you tried the Thunderbird redesign yet?

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I have not, but from screenshots it seems only a minor reskin.

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There is also Mailbird (not FOSS, costs money and has some weird NordVPN-like fake sales, but the app seems somewhat competent) and Mailspring (partly open source but afaik not completely, built with a MacOS-esque UI but works for Windows and Linux as well).

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Say “MacOS-esque” three times really fast.

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What do you mean by uploading to the cloud first? Any email goes over the internet

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There was a Linux client I saw a while ago—Spring Mail or something like that?—which first downloaded your email from your provider onto their own servers, then your local client got them from their server. This additional cloud step is what I want to avoid.

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They mean mail apps that keep a copy of your emails in their servers

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Are you saying that Mozilla keeps copies of your emails on their own servers?

🤨

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No, I am saying that OP is looking for an alternative client, which also doesn’t upload their emails. For example, mailspring would be a bad recommendation because, as far as I know, it uploads your email to their server

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Thunderbird.

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You had one job…

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🤦

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