Claws Mail

Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2013–2024), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Claws Mail, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 12 complaints

Most buttons disabled and UI freezes for seconds during IMAP activity2024-01-11
UI freezes during mail checks, blocking reading, composing and editing until done2023-08-02
Reply and forward buttons are small dropdown menus that are hard to click and hard to customize2022-06-11
Cannot read HTML emails, which keeps the user from using it as main mail reader2022-06-10
App freezes at times with very little feedback about what it is doing2022-06-10
Search doesn't index and only searches one folder at a time2022-06-10
Search misses messages the user can find in Thunderbird, forcing a switch to another app2022-06-10
Date format setting is hard to use, with no user-friendly way to configure it2022-06-10
UI freezes because it runs on a single thread, which is painful2022-06-10
Same icons reused for different actions, making buttons hard to tell apart2022-06-10
UI hangs while collecting mail because it is not multithreaded2022-04-24
Interface too cluttered and hard to use on small screens2013-04-12