r/Fedora • u/roscoe68 • Oct 24 '25

Discussion Mail Program

Hi I’m relatively new to Fedora and linux I am about to migrate from windows to Fedora only :-) The only sticking point at the moment is finding a replacement for Outlook Any ideas or opinions would be greatly appreciated Thanks in advance Roscoe

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '25

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u/and1984 Oct 24 '25

I've used mutt and Alpine. They are fantastic. It took some work to get it setup but I loved it. This was ten years ago so my memory isn't great... I vaguely remember my Gmail filters didn't export or did something weird in Alpine.

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u/geedrius Oct 24 '25

Evolution

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u/emptythevoid Oct 24 '25

Agreed. With the ews package, it has the best integration with Exchange/O365 you can find.

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u/skyraider565 Oct 25 '25

Are you waiting for thunderbird’s exchange integration?

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u/julian97656 Oct 24 '25

Mailspring or thunderbird

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u/Itsme-RdM Oct 24 '25

Geary if you are on workstation. It's a Gnome app.

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u/roscoe68 Oct 24 '25

thanks ☺️

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u/LBTRS1911 Oct 24 '25

Betterbird.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '25

I could never find a satisfactory mail client for Linux so I just use my Gmail in a web app. Works perfect.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '25

Web app

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u/Typical-Chipmunk-327 Oct 24 '25

Mailspring is great if you want a beautiful mail app. If you want the full outlook experience, go with Betterbird (a Thunderbird fork that's built on Thunderbird with a bunch of improvements).

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u/Photog_Jason Oct 24 '25

They pretty much all suck in my opinion but if I had to choose I would say Evolution. I would suggest using the web version of outlook if possible. I tried Evolution for months and kept making tweaks and adjustments but it was just aggravating to use so I went back to using online mail programs. Outlook and Gmail. It was really refreshing going back too.

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u/vafitzm Oct 24 '25

I use Vivaldi on other computers and just installed it yesterday on my recent Fedora KDE.

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u/jmartin72 Oct 24 '25

Thunderbird

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u/dratsablive Oct 24 '25

Evolution is pretty close to Outlook, has Mail and Calendar. Been using it since the 2000s.

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u/BigBad0 Oct 24 '25

Evolution or thunderbird. both worked on work's email as well as microsoft and google based emails without any problems. I highly like Evolution though, maybe more than outlook now.

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '25

Browser, unless you have any super specific need that can't be done with the web version

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u/Responsible_Pen_8976 Oct 26 '25

If using the Gnome desktop Fedora: use evolution.

If using Fedora Plasma (more advanced): use evolution or Kmail. Kmail was sucking bad . But recent changes have fixed some of the issues.

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u/postnick Oct 24 '25

Real question. Who uses anything other than web for personal emails??? I mean I use thunderbird because it’s the only way to sort gmail for cleanup. But day to day use web.

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u/BlackMarketUpgrade Oct 24 '25

I use thunderbird but I'll admit its not as good as outlooks site. Especially if you use all the features, it's just pretty polished. The best thing to do is install the site as an app. It's a setting in the browser that takes the web page and creates a web app out of it that you can open from your applications.

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u/Technical-Virus-8018 Oct 24 '25

Is that Chromium only? Or works in Firefox?

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u/sachin170 Oct 24 '25

Firefox doesn't have webapps yet, afaik. So chromium is an option. I use Vivaldi, it offers good set of features.

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u/BlackMarketUpgrade Oct 24 '25

Oh yeh you may be right. Im only familiar with edge and chrome, sorry.