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What’s New in Thunderbird 78

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Re: What’s New in Thunderbird 78

#51

To each their own but I find it hard to fathom using a non-cloud based email system. I regularly access my email from 7 computers.

Email via IMAP is the original cloud based system.

That aside, the reduced latency of native email clients makes them much more pleasant to work with than webmail.

Re: What’s New in Thunderbird 78

#52
Did Thunderbird remove support for older XUL-based add-ons like Firefox did? It’s unclear to me what the article means by “legacy extensions” - based on context it seems simply to refer to extensions that work in 77.

Re: What’s New in Thunderbird 78

#54

I'm a major fan. I self host email, contacts, calendar, and Thunderbird is essential in my workflow. Only issue is that the task descriptions don't render HTML and with all the crazy zoom meeting invites it is ugly. HTML in caldav is not standard but I would like the option since its a thing these days.

just curious, what do you use to host email and calendar?

Re: What’s New in Thunderbird 78

#56

I'm a major fan. I self host email, contacts, calendar, and Thunderbird is essential in my workflow. Only issue is that the task descriptions don't render HTML and with all the crazy zoom meeting invites it is ugly. HTML in caldav is not standard but I would like the option since its a thing these days.

just curious, what do you use to host email and calendar?

Postfix and dovecot and spamassassin for email. Radicale for caldav and carddev.

Re: What’s New in Thunderbird 78

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post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who said it's a difference made under mobile constraints? I've literally never used a mail client that didn't do multiple emails on the same line. On Desktop or Mobile. And it's never been an issue.

I've had issues editing email addresses in clients with multiple mails per line. As long as everybody is on your address book it's fine, but if they're not, things tend to get awry. I haven't tried the new Thunderbird, but I am suspicious of this change as well.

"I've had issues editing email addresses in clients with multiple mails per line."

This was my first reaction when I saw the change - I really hope they get this right as it goes to the core functionality of Thunderbird. If email addresses can't be easily and accurately edited in the To field, it will be a real problem for me.

Re: What’s New in Thunderbird 78

#58

I skimmed through the features and was very excited for the dark mode announcement. But that quickly went down the drain when I couldn't find how to force it from the setting, because I'm using i3wm, and there's no "dark mode" per se. The other thing I'm wondering about is how this will integrate with OpenGPG, more specifically if it will allow the use with smartcards. And it looks like it planned ![1] Great work Tea…

Thunderbird is GTK. Does it not work if you configure a dark GTK theme?

Re: What’s New in Thunderbird 78

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post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who said it's a difference made under mobile constraints? I've literally never used a mail client that didn't do multiple emails on the same line. On Desktop or Mobile. And it's never been an issue.

I've had issues editing email addresses in clients with multiple mails per line. As long as everybody is on your address book it's fine, but if they're not, things tend to get awry. I haven't tried the new Thunderbird, but I am suspicious of this change as well.

How is it any more difficult to edit multiple email addresses in a single box as it is to edit a multi word subject line in a single box?

Re: What’s New in Thunderbird 78

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post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not a fan of the flat buttons but I strongly disagree about the single/multi line TO situation. I doubt there will be a single person for whom Thunderbird is their first email/messaging type app. Most would have used something on their iOS or Android devices first at least. All of them will be comfortable with multiple users in a single To line, while having multiple lines for multiple users will actually appear alie…

> I doubt there will be a single person for whom Thunderbird is their first email/messaging type app. Most would have used something on their iOS or Android devices first at least. You'd be wrong. I, grudgingly, moved from mutt to Thunderbird after it was clear that email was turning into MIME-encoded web pages.

So you have used another email app before moving to Thunderbird then...
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