I imagine this comes down to personal preference a lot, but I strongly prefer Roundcube over Gmail. They have improved a lot over the past years, if you have some preconceptions. After 10y+ on Gmail I finally feel like I am getting a grasp over my own email.

But then I also very much prefer a hierarchical/directory tree approach to organizing e-mail than labels&search as Gmail does it.

More similar UX-philosophy can be found in Mailpile[1] and Cypht[2]. Both still have decent amount of moving parts but are continuously progressing.

[0]: https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/

[1]: https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile

[2]: https://cypht.org/

Oh, I forgot to mention Rainloop, which is quite similar to Roundcube.

I use mailcow and it uses SoGo which is quite pleasant in my opinion https://www.sogo.nu/

You can try https://www.rainloop.net/try-now/ they are pretty good with a slick UI. I would call it modern Roundcoube

The new Roundcube is pretty good these days

Quite good.

I try and use native clients or TUIs rather than webmail. I'm current using Mail.app and aerc and having a blast.

Delta.chat looks similar to mail.app. Basically a WhatsApp UI for email. Open Source and E2EE.

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