Email in Fedora 40 Workstation?

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It is whatever is included on the Workstation iso image, I assume. Fedora 39 Workstation iso does not have emacs.

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I mean the software that is preinstalled or that Fedora 40 Workstation is shipped with, without needing to install it from the repos.

What does ‘OTOH’ mean?

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“Repository : @System” just means “already installed”.

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‘It is whatever is included on the Workstation iso image’ …

That is basically what I mean. The software that is already there after a fresh install of Fedora 40 Workstation from an iso.

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I agree. But, as mentioned already, there is no email client than comes preinstalled when installing Fedora Workstation. A possible reason is because there is no official GNOME email client, and Fedora Workstation is shipped with GNOME DE.

In case you don’t know Emacs, I don’t think this is what you’re looking for. It is a rather complex, extensible text editor, mainly used in a console, which can work as an email client with the appropriate extensions, AFAIK.

However, it is rarely, if ever, that someone uses Fedora nowadays without any additional software installations. And installing from the repos is the most straightforward way (be it from GNOME Software or via dnf).

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Abbreviation: on the other hand.

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I should’ve written Repo: fedora, as opposed to Repo: google-chrome (this one is also in my @System).

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Is it more secure to read, write and administrate emails using an email client or using the email provider’s website in a web browser together with a browser extension of the email provider that notifies of new emails, in terms of security and privacy?

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I think a general discussion of e-mail clients and their security is beyond the scope of this forum.

People use e-mail clients because often these clients provide more features than the web interfaces in addition to the convenience of being able to read e-mail even when not connected to the internet (offline). It’s totally fine to use the web-interfaces of the e-mail providers if they are sufficient. (I use both depending on what I’m doing).

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I would really liked to use email client on Fedora, the major ones Thunderbird and Evolution don’t support basic Desktop integration, like close to system tray and auto start on login in systray.