Really? I've heard it kinda sucks these days. I used to use it years back though and am a big Firefox supporter.
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the_q@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Thunderbird is a great alternative to Outlook.
nicetriangle@kbin.social 4 months ago
trk@aussie.zone 4 months ago
I’ve used Thunderbird for years. I love it.
IMAP, 30GB account, contacts and calendar synced with our Nextcloud server. Can search for a term and receive a list of emails going back years instantly.
I can open Thunderbird, search for an email from 2016, and be replying to it faster than my wife’s identical PC can even finish loading the Outlook splash screen (may contain traces of hyperbole).
fluckx@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Holy shit. I just googled Thunderbird and it is looking sleek AF.
I couldn’t use it in the past at work since they only supported “modern” auth methods and no IMAP/pop3.
Firefox didn’t support it back then and I was stuck with evolution. Which isn’t bad functionally. It just still looks like it was designed in the 90s.
I’m not using any email client privately atm. But it’s nice to see the UI also got some love.
nicetriangle@kbin.social 4 months ago
Huh good to know. Thanks for the details!
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I’ve recently set up Mutt with Fetchmail and Procmail. Getting mail over IMAP (with keeping those on server), putting it into one mailbox, archiving read, segmented by year and zstd-compressed, with macros for switching between outgoing SMTP accounts.
Takes little space, works fast and is very convenient once set up.
It’s a very different taste from what you are describing, though.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No. A year or two ago they did a big redesign and added a lot of functionality. Of course, whenever you have changes to a software there will be some stuffy old dudes crying about it. So everywhere you look there are people who are upset because the interface is different from what they were used to even though it is way more modern and much more useful, and better for users - especially new users.
nicetriangle@kbin.social 4 months ago
Appreciate the insight, thanks
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I have only used it briefly but it seems decent at first glance. On par with any other major client (MacOS mail, outlook etc)
Though I tend to only read email on my phone, these days. That’s why I haven’t used it much.
PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I recently switched to it from Outlook and while it lacks some of the features of Outlook, it’s not a bad replacement.
ares35@kbin.social 4 months ago
the recent changes to thunderbird are welcome improvements. you should give it another shot.
dan1101@lemm.ee 4 months ago
It has been working great for me for years. I do turn off automatic updates because occasionally they release a buggy version, but it gets fixed.
Hexarei@programming.dev 4 months ago
As is Mailspring
Corngood@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
And when they figure out how to serve ads on IMAP, you can take thunderbird to another provider.
I don’t think it’ll actually come to that, due to popularity, but I can see them blocking IMAP access on new accounts due to ‘security’.
4am@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Exchange was always the EEE to standard mail/calendar protocols. They have a path towards that.
They’ve already moved Active Directory to the cloud, they’re normalizing “Microsoft owns your accounts, even business ones”. All the content on Teams lives on Azure, and I believe SharePoint is doing the same.
Microsoft is EEEing the Fortune 500.
orwellianlocksmith@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What is eee?
jas0n@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Embrace Extreme Extinguish