[tarasmatsyk]

It looks nice, however it feels like I am running one more browser, am I wrong here?

I really like Thunderbird and that one of options for mail clients if I am on linux, however another electron app is a no-go for me.

[trissylegs]

All of them use some sort of Webbrowser underneath. Thunderbird is using Firefox/Gecko, Geary is using GTKWebkit, macOS Mail is probably using Webkit. Note sure what Windows Mail is using. (Similar to outlook in my experice)

Outlook... is using Microsoft Word. (I mean technical it's just Offices' document rendering engine, but for meail it's equivalent as opening a HTML file in MS Word) (Also sends RTF mail for addresses on the same Exchange server)

Although I'd note that they strip down the HTML avialible. Emails can't execute Javascript. CSS is stripped down and must be in file. (Or completely inlined)

You limited to some very old Web technology in email. (Unless Google somehow managed to convince anyone else to support AMP 4 Email)

[bawolff]

Good luck running a mail client - you know, a program that takes html documents and renders them, because modern email is html - without running a browser.

In any case, thunderbird essentialy has a lineage going back all the way to netscape navigator (at least spiritually), so it was doing this way before electron was cool.

[ars]

alpine for the win! It can render some html, enough that I rarely need to open an email with an actual browser.

But some emails are mainly images with little text, and then I have to export the email.

[mrweasel]

Sadly the interested for writing good, native, desktop application, especially email clients, seems to have faded away.