eM Client

I have tired endless email clients. I'm quite hard to please. I want: functionality, customisability and low memory use. I tried eM Client a while ago and rejected it in favour of Thunderbird. Recently I realised that Thunderbird was using 300mb plus and that was enough to have the fan on my laptop running all the time. I went on the hunt for alternatives and found that, after fiddly setting up that many "simple" clients also swallow 300mb for no real reason. Then I try eM Client again, not expecting great things, however, since the last time they have made it more customisable and more slick but the cherry on the cake: it only uses 100mb! Setting it up was also simple. Even after going back to eM Client I have tried a few more alternatives, and nothing customisable and slick uses less than 300mb. I have several email addresses forwarding to one central Gmail and eM Client is configured with just that one Gmail. The emails are sorted into folders by Gmail and eM Client handles the folders just fine. It isn't quite as customisable as Thunderbird but, as email isn't that important to me it: just needs to be there quietly doing it's job and telling me when I have a new email without swallowing 300mb in order to do it. I guess my summary is: I need a simple, low memory, customisable client and eM Client does just the job I need it to do.

The best email client that I've used to date. I've used many. eMClient is highly customizable, streamlined, and workflow. Well worth it's cost.

I use mail clients before GMail exists. So I tested a lot of them. Gaston (fr), Thunderbird, Pocomail (the best), Postbox and now eM Client because Postbox stopped its development. It’s not the first time I try eM Client. I found it slow, a little buggy and not so convenient than the competitors.

This time, I use it for real. It seems to be a stable program now. No bugs found, reactive, some handy features and nice UI.

The + :

• interface is clean, modern, shows the police you choose for reading your mails (yes, Thunderbird)
• themes are nice (dark themes work perfectly, TB again)
• I like the Smart Folders, the Quick Actions
• History of mails/attachments with a particular contact is very handy
• Contacts management is nice
• I love the default avatar feature for each contact. Very handy.
• rules with original features
• tagging is handy
• discussions are well managed - I like the fact that you can show the listing without discussions and, when opening a mail, the discussion is showing.

The - :

• Search works fine but you have to select the good directory/profile before searching in it. A little frustrating because I like to search in everything
• no instant search like in TB
• launching slower than other programs (but OK)
• rules lacks some basic feature like changing a mail to "read" or "unread"
• not compatible with Mailstore (without complex manipulations)

I did not test : Agenda, ToDo and Alert. When I took a look, I found them difficult to handle and I was not sure if they were working as intended for me.

The main reason I use now Em Client is the interface end the way the mail are rendered. It looks clean and you are not perturbed by random rendering, broken HTML or little glitches. You forget it and it’s a great quality. I did not meet bugs with IMAP or Pop (GMail…).

The two main drawbacks for me are incompatibility with Mailstore and the search functionality. Sometimes I don’t find immediately what I search and it’s because I did not select the good directory or the good filters and it’s frustrating.

I hope I won’t have to change my mail client befor a long time - Thunderbird is so frustrating.

It’s a really pleasure to use on iOS. It’s free, no tracking and it’s the only client supporting automatically replying using a catch-all alias. For the real power user!

What Outlook always should have been.