Re: Thunderbird replacement suggestions?

[Tom Dial <tddial@comcast.net>]

On 7/4/20 15:38, Tom Dial wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> While trying to fix a broken Thunderbird/Enigmail installation on my
> wife's Windows laptop, I found the cause to be a new feature in
> Thunderbird 78, installed recently without notice: that it will not
> support Enigmail. The new version also appears to have no obvious way to
> import openpgp keys, and it appears the developers do not plan to
> support that, at least for secret and signed public keys, nor any
> intention to adhere to the "Web of Trust" infrastructure. I still have
> TB 68 on the Debian machines, but expect that will go away by Bullseye
> release, since Mozilla's support for it apparently will end late this year.
> 
> I elected to use Thunderbird a number of years ago because it has a
> relatively decent UI, downloads and removes the messages from my ISP's
> servers, and with Enigmail had reasonably good PGP integration. I'm sure
> there are others, but it's 10 - 20 years since I used them (fetchmail +
> mutt, IIRC).
> 
> I would welcome suggested alternatives. An additional desired feature,
> if known, would be any capability to ingest old messages from Thunderbird.
> 

Thanks to all for the suggestions:

    getmail + mutt: (Dan Ritter)
    claws-mail: (Andrei Popescu)
    sylpheed : (celejar)
    protonmail: (ghe2001)(celejar)
    protonmail + open-source-bridge: (celejar)

I'll be installing and testing them in some order during the coming months.

Regards,
Tom Dial