I’ve not used an email client in about 10 years. I used to use Thunderbird but overall web UIs have made things far easier, more featurefull, and more supported. I’m happy Thunderbird still gets updates but I don’t see a world where I use it.
It makes a lot more sense if you have multiple emails. Especially emails with numerous aliases.
Yeah I use 3 emails on 3 different domain servers which means opening 3 tabs and being redirected to portals on all of them
Yeah I use it on my work laptop. I have two work emails and my personal email so having thunderbird is a huge convenience
Even then I do this with gmail in the web client. That said i dont really BYOD or work from personal stuff. So there is that.
I have notifier for gmail on firefox. Logs in to all my emails and just notifies me if there is an email. I manage 3 different emails on 3 different domains. With aliases I have about 10 emails but my aliases forward emails to the correct inbox.
I find it useful to have offline access to email.
Off…line…? Like no internet? 😱
I never need emails offline on my desktop. My phone email client keeps everything but that’s just the standard Gmail app. Anytime I don’t have internet is when I am mobile and thus I have my phone and it’s far more convenient than trying to lug out my laptop or such. Also with a laptop that’s offline, I don’t see the reason for email since I already have a phone that stores emails when I need them for hotels or flights. It’s not like I am going to reply to emails during a time without the internet. Most of the time to reply I need to reference something online so even if I could queue it for sending when I do get online it’s useless to do so.
I’m so happy that Thunderbird is finally getting a modern redesign.
This is good news!
As someone who is pretty much always on the hunt for a better email client (bane of my existence, honestly) I’m excited to see this. I gave it a look today and the new design is such an improvement, but still a real adjustment to use from other modern clients. I’m going to go give it a good shot but I’m quite a visual person, so style and design has a big impact on usability for me - has anyone got tips or recommendations here?
I like Mailspring on desktop
I dislike that it’s missing calendar integration features that the dev has been promising for years. Despite its proprietary nature I much prefer BlueMail.
It’s fine but I find mildly irritating the fact that they have removed the tab dividers.
Installed, it’s great and all but thunderbird feels a bit busy for me. I prefer geary, but thunderbird does work better with my small laptop screen so I may keep it on the portable
I’m one of those weirdos who actually likes an email client vs a web one. I have multipl email accounts and it’s nice to have one space for all of them. I used thunderbird for years and eventually caved and started using multiple tabs of web interfaces.
With this announcement I said to myself hell let’s try it. Immediately upon installing it I thought I had the wrong version, because the layout was the same old layout that’s it’s always been and not the new vertical card layout they showed on the website.
I was able to change it to look like their new modem redesign but it was not the default. So just a heads up to anyone who’s curious to try it because of the fresh coat of paint.
I’m going to try it for the next few months and see how I like it again.
Fellow weirdo here. I started using Thunderbird back when I stopped using (you’re not going to believe this) Eudora. I _loved _Eudora. it did everything I needed. TB’s been great for years, occasionally less than great but still pretty damn good. It’s like a progressive rock band that changes but still feels a bit familiar. Like Rush. Okay, Thunderbird is Rush. No wonder it’s so great. See? This is why we have the internet.
I remember Eudora. Whatever happened to it? I seem to remember it made a rooster noise when mail arrived. Or maybe that was an extension we had.
Also, I just made the connection that it was probably named after Eudora Welty, whose book I hated in school.
I left Thunderbird ultimately because of dwindling O365 support. How is it now? My work and school emails are all O365, because evidently companies think Microsoft is the only option.
Works OK when using the paid (small yearly sub) Owl plugin. But I can’t see my colleagues shared calendar, which means I’ll have to stop using it in favour of either Outlook or eM Client.
Very glad to read this. I’m terrible at keeping on top of email with just webmail, but since I’ve been using Windows all the alternatives have felt pretty abysmal. You never realise how spoiled you are for good software on macOS, albeit at a cost.
(Linux has some very cool stuff too of course, but most of it will likely never be at home on Windows.)
The new Outlook, currently in preview, is identical to the Outlook webmail client (in my experience). Native apps are becoming more and more obscure.
The new Outlook, currently in preview, is identical to the Outlook webmail client (in my experience). Native apps are becoming more and more obscure.
For Linux, we’re going to encourage people to use our Flatpak packages moving forward.
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Sorry why the dislike about flatpack?
Every distribution has their own package manager. It checks dependencies and obeys the specialities why this distribution exists at all. Something like flatpack circumvents all the ideas and installs things in a container that is too big and too strange. In the past I’ve had multiple issues with accessing video acceleration and other strange effects that I don’t want to tweak. I’m not interested in updates by the vendor, but by my trusted distro’s packagers.
Cool. Thanks for the explanation.
Will they keep the dense email list view as an option? Seeing more than the 14 email messages visible on the screenshot in the post is useful to sort out large folders.
It not only is still an option, it’s the default option.
Wonderful!
