I do not really get along with #geary on my #pinephone - actually I deinstalled it.
#Email still is my main communication medium and I do have lots of #imap folders and server side filter rules.
I've gotten along well with #kmail and am using #thunderbird on the desktop at the moment. But I do not have the slightest idea what to use on my pinephone.
Any suggestion?
A web frontend with a light and for mobile optimized interface could be a solution also ( if it'd be foss for selfhosting).
Hey, thanks for your suggestions.
I already installed nextcloud mail and it doesn't seem to work too well with my server: very slow on my desktop and even worth on the phone.
I'll definitly look into rainloop. What works without being very modern nor maintained seems to be squirrelmail.
@chrichri Yeah, #Squirrelmail is far more lightweight. #Nextcloud #Mail does need a pretty beefy server, so I wouldn't recommend it on an #RPi or similar. There was another one... #Sogo? that someone mentioned last time I was griping about the lack of decent, modern, #FOSS #webmail options. It looked OK, and had a mobile web interface.
rainloop really looks promising. Just tried the demo in epihany and it worked great, is feature rich and looks good.
Would'nt guess it is a web app if I'd seen it first in fullscreen...
I guess I need to test it with my own installation.
@chrichri Cool! Let me know how it works out. I'm looking for a decent #Pinephone #email option, myself... my needs aren't particularly extensive, although I do love tags. Ok, the one thing that I *would* love, but is highly unlikely, would be a webmail with #Thunderbird like filters/automation. First things first though, read, reply, search and mark favorite...
Well, running in Firefox fullscreen it just looks like a mail client.
Only drawback: when reading a message it automatically marks it read which is a behaviour you can't configure.
I installed #rainloop with no problems at all in an already running nginx in a new virtual server. It just needs php and some php extensions.
I'm just starring at the source to find out where I can stop it to mark messages as read...
@chrichri I am still using Evolution with scale-to-fit and without sidebars. Works good enough. If you've got a convergence dock, you can use that to set it up just as you want :)
Thanks for the reminder - I already had plans to check on #evolution as a possible #thunderbird replacement and having the same software on the phone as on the desktop would be nice.
So far I liked evolution a lot. It indeed seems to be a good alternative to thunderbird.
But on the phone everything is really small and I'm missing a button to switch on and off the folder list (the menu is really, really small and hitting F9 is not really convenient).
And again I observed a strange behaviour in #phosh - I guess. Initially I thought it'd be related to tootle.
When the screen orientation is changed scale-to-fit seems to change the scale of the window.
For me it looks like scale-to-fit always sticks with the smallest scale it ever calculated - it does not seem to recalclulate the scale when changing orientation to make things bigger again.
Might not be possible if the application itself adopted somehow. @agx?
@chrichri https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phoc/-/issues/141 - scale to fit users should think about sending patches to improve this (it's not that complicated and confined to the compositor)
@chrichri Other than #Geary, sadly there just doesn't seem to be a #Pinephone email app at this time. That said, a number of the FOSS webmail clients work decently well, eg #Nextcloud #Mail. I haven't tried it, but I imagine #RainLoop would probably also work decently.
There is word that one of the main #PlasmaMobile devs is working on a lightweight KDE email client for #MobileLinux, too.